President Uhuru Kenyatta has affirmed that the government is committed to uniting the country and serving all Kenyans without discrimination. The President said Kenyans should shun tribalism and join hands in building a country that they will always be proud […]
The Legal Resources Centre has launched an application in the Grahamstown High Court on behalf of two parents whose application to register their child’s birth has been rejected by the Department of Home Affairs’ because the child’s mother does not […]
IN EXERCISE of the powers conferred by section 9 (2) of the Births and Deaths Registration Act, the Cabinet Secretary for Interior and Co-ordination of National Government declares that: 1. With effect from the 1st November, 2016 the registration of […]
Decision adopted unanimously by the IPU Governing Council at its 199th session (Geneva, 27 October 2016) The Governing Council of the Inter-Parliamentary Union, […] 1. Notes with satisfaction that a passport has been issued to Mr. Chalupa for humanitarian reasons, […]
Registration of live births improves… … but not every pregnancy results to a live birth and not every live birth survives The Recorded live births 2013-2015 and the Perinatal deaths 2014, reports released by Statistics South Africa indicate that of […]
By: Wanja Lisa Munaita NAIROBI, Kenya – Amina Kassim would like to register to vote in the next elections in Kenya, where she was born and has lived all her life, but is unable to do so. Descended from an ethnic […]
CRC/C/ZAF/CO/2 Enregistrement des naissances, nom et nationalité Le Comité salue l’augmentation sensible du taux d’enregistrement des naissances dans l’État partie. Toutefois, il constate avec préoccupation que : a) L’obtention de certificats de naissance est compliquée par des obstacles d’ordre administratif et […]
Le code de la nationalité malgache comporte plusieurs dispositions non conformes aux principes des droits humains, notamment sur la discrimination du genre. Dans ce code, élaboré au lendemain de l’Indépendance, une femme malgache mariée à un étranger ne peut transmettre […]
By ELKANA JACOB and ALLOYS MUSYOKA The government has registered about 2,950 members of the Makonde community who will be issued with IDs by December. The number registered on Tuesday includes 1,524 adults and 1,426 children. Daniel Fundi, 110, thanked […]
Beaucoup de parents n’ont pas encore le réflexe de déclarer leurs enfants à l’état civil dès la naissance dans les communes de Mbellacadiao et de Ndiob. Selon le secrétaire général de l’Organisation Education et Développement de l’Enfant (Eden), Ibrahima Khalil […]
By Yash Pal Ghai The number of stateless persons in Kenya is sometimes estimated at about 100,000 people. This is undoubtedly a gross underestimate. Whole communities are declared stateless—one authority estimated that the Nubians alone amount to over 100,000. The […]
By Lucy Hovil Drawing on seven years of research by IRRI, my book, Refugees, Conflict and the Search for Belonging has just been published (Palgrave Macmillan, September 2016). Although the focus is on East and Central Africa, the book has […]