The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights today concluded its consideration of the second periodic report of Sudan on the implementation of the provisions of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. Kamal Ismael Saeed, State Minister […]
By Ben Oppenheim and Brenna Marea Powell Universal legal identity is an important cross-cutting goal in the UN’s 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, and is a key component of Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 16.9.1 Legal identity is often described as […]
ASI Famara Fadera, the Public Relation Officer (PRO) of the Gambia Immigration Department (GID), has revealed that the production of the Biometric Identity cards is presently facing a major technical problem and hence the non-issuance of this national document to […]
Committee on the Rights of the Child, 73rd Pre-Sessional Working Group (1–5 February 2016) Lawyers for Human Rights (LHR) and the Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion (the Institute) welcome the opportunity to make this submission to the Committee on the […]
On 30th September / 1st October 2015, the Cameroon-based association Citizens Governance Initiatives organized a Sub-regional Conference on « Citizenship and the right to Nationality in Central Africa » in Yaoundé, Cameroon. The Conference, which was made possible with financial support from […]
Johannesburg — Home Affairs Minister Malusi Gigaba has called on officials to urge parents to register their new born babies within 30 days after birth because the late registration of births (LRB) process will be coming to an end soon. […]
Le Haut-Commissariat des Nations-Unies pour les Réfugiés (Unhcr) organise en collaboration avec Open Society Initiative for West Africa (Osiwa), Open Society Africa Regional Office (Afro) et Open Society Justice Initiative (Osji), la conférence consultative d’Afrique de l’Ouest sur le droit […]
By John Osmers Twenty-one years after the genocide, and despite a rosy picture created internationally of a healing nation, many Rwandan refugees are reluctant to return home for fear of persecution by the current regime. After those living in Zambia […]
Today, Accenture and the World Bank released a report to help developing nations create universal ID management systems. The report notes that over 1.8 billion adults in developing countries currently lack an official ID and therefore have no access to […]
How do you hold an election without registering voters? That is the question confronting Somali politicians—as well as hordes of diplomats, NGOs and other international hangers-on—trying to create a functional government in Somalia, a country that has been without a […]
This weekend the world meets to commit to the Sustainable Development Goals to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. For 10 million stateless people worldwide this will continue to be a dream as long as they […]
analysis BIG Brother has been watching and following the Lebanese-born but naturalised Namibian businessman Ali Fadl Ayoub for the past 15 years. But who is Ali Fadl Ayoub? Why are the authorities interested in him and suspecting him of having […]