Pour éviter que d’anciens réfugiés libériens en Afrique de l’Ouest deviennent des apatrides, le gouvernement libérien a mené des missions de réévaluation des personnes à risque d’apatridie dans les pays où elles ont trouvé aside. DAKAR, SÉNÉGAL, 4 novembre 2016 (HCR) […]
Près de soixante-dix-huit mille Ivoiriens nés hors de la Côte d’Ivoire entre 2011 et 2016 du fait de la crise post-électorale n’ont pas d’extrait d’acte de naissance, a révélé jeudi le coordonnateur du Service d’aide et d’assistance aux réfugiés et […]
Le groupe de musique sénégalais vient de sortir un clip puissant avec l’aide du HCR À l’occasion du deuxième anniversaire de la campagne #IBelong ce mois-ci pour éradiquer l’apatridie en 10 ans, Bideew Bou Bess – « Nouvelle étoile » en wolof, […]
C’est fait, la nouvelle Constitution créant la 3e République de la Côte d’Ivoire a été adoptée lors du référendum de dimanche 30 octobre : adoption à 93,42% des suffrages exprimés tandis que l’opposition avait appelé à un boycott de ce […]
A law drafted by the parliament’s legislative committee is currently barred from discussion upon request of government Egypt’s House of Representative gave the government a 14-day ultimatum to finish drafting a new Equal Citizenship Law, Al-Ahram Arabic website reported on […]
CRC/C/SLE/CO/3-5 Birth registration 16. Taking note of target 16.9 of the Sustainable Development Goals on providing legal identity for all, including birth registration, the Committee recommends that the State party: (a) Continue its efforts to register all children, especially those […]
By Nasredeen Abdulbari Volume 4 Issue 1, November 2016 Incompatibilities between national laws, on the one hand, and international law, human rights rules and principles of citizenship with regard to women, their children (who are born to a foreign father) […]
Extract from Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion Bulletin on Statelessness, October 2016 At the 73rd session of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child (September 2016), a strong set of recommendations on protecting children’s right to a nationality […]
Extract from: Statelessness Monthly Bulletin October 2016 Members of the Makonde community in Kenya, after 40 years of statelessness, have finally found recognition as Kenyan citizens. The Makonde people say they were born in Kenya after their forefathers arrived in […]
[2016] UKPC 30 Privy Council Appeal No 0006 of 2016 1. The National Identity Card Act 1985 (“the 1985 Act”) provides for adult citizens of Mauritius to carry identity cards which bear their names and signatures. More recently, the […]
By Louzel Lombard Cape Town – The Department of Home Affairs has scrapped having two versions of the birth certificate, an abridged (issued for new-borns up until 2013) and an unabridged birth certificate detailing both parents details (issued to all […]
By BALDWIN NDABA Johannesburg – An SANDF member has taken Minister of Home Affairs Malusi Gigaba to the high court after his department allegedly refused to register his eight-month-old daughter, born to a Congolese woman, as a South African national. […]