Engagée depuis la mort du chef de l’Etat gabonais en 2009, la bataille des 54 enfants d’Omar Bongo pour le partage de son héritage, estimé a minima à plusieurs centaines de millions d’euros, a connu une nouvelle escarmouche, jeudi 12 […]
Madagascar plans to amend a discriminatory nationality law that stops mothers passing citizenship to their children, making thousands stateless on the Indian Ocean island. Campaigners hailed the proposed reform which they said could ease the plight of many of the […]
By Atossa Araxia Abrahamian On October 8, 2008, a group of government officials from the Comoro Islands made their way from their villages to a small airport not far from the nation’s capital, where, on a runway overlooking the Indian […]
By Verah Okeyo In Summary The small document people carry in their wallets stands between them and legitimacy in the eyes of the law while legalising the touchy matter of ethnic balance, especially in the public service. Data from the […]
November 5, 2015 (KHARTOUM) – The Sudanese Ministry of Interior announced today that all hand-written passports will be nullified effective November 25th after which only machine-readable passports (MRPs) will be accepted. […] The Director General of Passport Division Abu-Bakr Suleiman […]
In 2004, IHRDA filed a communication on behalf of Mr Esmaila Connateh and 13 other Gambians deported from Angola in March, April and May of 2004, together with an estimated 126,247 other foreigners. They were expelled under a government programme […]
Lesotho’s Ministry of Home Affairs said Wednesday that 16 foreigners from different countries have naturalised as Basotho.Ministry spokesperson Hape Marumo said some of these foreigners have since applied for Lesotho citizenship but failed because they could not meet the set […]
Over the last two days Madagascar has taken significant steps towards eradicating gender discrimination in its nationality law and eliminating statelessness. If a reformed law is implemented it would ensure, amongst other things, that women are no longer discriminated against […]
The United Nations High Commission on Refugees has stressed the need for urgent action against childhood statelessness. UNHCR says stateless children across the world share similar feelings of discrimination, frustration and despair. Speaking Tuesday in Monrovia at press conference, UNHCR […]
Au moins un million de personnes sont apatrides ou à risque d’apatridie en Afrique de l’Ouest. Plus de la moitié sont des enfants. Tous souffrent notamment de ne pas avoir de papiers. DAKAR, SENEGAL, 3 novembre 2015 (HCR) -Les facteurs […]
LLOCUTION D’OUVERTURE DE SEM RAKOTOMAMONJY Jean Max PRESIDENT DE L’ASSEMBLEE NATIONALE Soixante sept ans après la déclaration universelle des droits de l’homme, son effectivité dans divers aspects laisse encore à désirer. Force est, cependant, de constaterque la plupart des Etats […]
En juillet et août 2015, dans sept pays différents, le HCR a recueilli les témoignages de plus de 250 enfants et jeunes, et ceux de leurs parents et de leurs tuteurs. Le propos était qu’ils racontent leur expérience d’enfants apatrides. […]