Nationality laws which do not grant women equality with men in conferring nationality to their children are a cause of statelessness and a concern for UNHCR under its mandate to prevent and reduce statelessness. Since 2012, UNHCR has issued an […]
In close cooperation with the UN Refugee Agency, Malian authorities have officially delivered birth certificates to 32 Mauritanian refugee children born in Mali in a ceremony in Kayes, in the western part of the country, yesterday (6 March). The ceremony […]
By: Anuradha Mittal Is the 2015 “Iowa Agriculture Summit” really a bi-partisan forum to promote agriculture, or yet another scheme devised by multi-millionaire Iowan Bruce Rastetter to hijack issues impacting farmers and agriculture for his self-serving political and economic agenda? […]
L’Action 3 du Plan d’action global fait appel aux États de supprimer la discrimination basée sur le genre de leur législation sur la nationalité. L’instauration de l’égalité des genres dans les législations sur la nationalité du monde entier constituerait une […]
The President of the ECOWAS Community Court of Justice, Justice Maria Do Céu Silva Monteiro, has described the 1982 regional Protocol defining community citizenship in ECOWAS as ‘outdated’. She has thus called for its revision, which should be in line […]
art. 7: « tout enfant est enregistré à sa naissance et a dès celle-ci le droit à un nom, le droit d’acquérir la nationalité et, dans la mesure du possible, connaitre ses parents et d’être élevé par eux » Télécharger: […]
More than 54,000 South Sudanese have been registered and some 37,000 identity cards produced since the programme began at the start of February By: Karin de Gruijl KHARTOUM, Sudan, March 3 (UNHCR) – The Sudan government has begun to register South […]
CRC/C/TZA/CO/3-5 Observations finales concernant les troisième à cinquième rapports périodiques de la République Unie de Tanzanie, soumis en un seul document Enregistrement des naissances 34. Le Comité prend note avec satisfaction des mesures prises par l’État partie pour accroître le […]
The Pastor of New Water in the Desert Assembly (NWIDA), the headquarters congregation of the Apostolic Pentecostal Church (APC) has called on Liberians to stand against dual citizenship. He believes that if dual citizenship is rejected it would avoid recreating […]
Something unusual happened in parliament on November 25, 2014. The Minister of Internal Affairs, Gen. Aronda Nyakairima and his deputy, James Baba, and the Permanent Secretary, Stephen Kagoda, were appearing before the Committee on Defence and Internal Affairs to give […]
17ème Session extraordinaire, 19 – 28 février 2015. Banjul, Gambie. Publiée le 30 mai 2016. « By failing to take measures to prevent members of the Nubian Community from becoming stateless and by failing to put in place fair processes, devoid […]
Decision of the African Commission in a case alleging discrimination against « Dioula » in Cote d’Ivoire on the basis of nationality and other grounds, and finding Cote d’Ivoire in violation of Articles 1, 2, 3, 5, 12, 13, 14, 15, 18 […]