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CDE Observations finales: Ile Maurice, 2015

Published: 27/Fév/2015
Source: Comité des droits de l’enfant

CRC/C/MUS/CO/3-5 Le Comité a examiné les troisième à cinquième rapports périodiques de Maurice présentés en un seul document (CRC/C/MUS/3-5) à ses 1940e et 1942e séances (CRC/C/SR.1940 et CRC/C/SR.1942), les 14 et 15 janvier 2015, et a adopté les observations finales […]

Ghana to ratify UN Statelessness Conventions by 2016

Published: 26/Fév/2015
Source: Spy Ghana

Ghana has started initiatives that will provide the necessary impetus for it to accede to the United Nations’ Conventions on Statelessness by 2016. Mr James Agalga, Deputy Minister of the Interior, said alongaside these initiatives, the government recognizes the need […]

Ministerial Conference on Statelessness in the ECOWAS region / Conférence ministérielle sur l’apatridie au sein de la CEDEAO

Published: 25/Fév/2015
Source: UNHCR

Materials in English, French and Portuguese for the ECOWAS ministerial meeting on statelessness. Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, 23 to 25 February 2015. Abidjan Declaration of Ministers of ECOWAS States on the Eradication of Statelessness: ENG-Declaration FRE-Declaration POR-Declaration Conclusions and Recommendations E-Conclusions […]

UN tackles statelessness in West Africa

Published: 25/Fév/2015
Source: Voice of America

The Economic Community of West African States is holding its first ministerial conference on statelessness this week in Abidjan. The United Nations said at least 750,000 people in West Africa are denied a nationality. Where Sierra Leonean refugees say both […]

L’Afrique de l’Ouest adopte la carte d’identité biométrique

Published: 24/Fév/2015
Source: International Organisation for Migration (IOM)

Nigéria – La Commission de la Communauté des Etats d’Afrique de l’Ouest (CEDEAO) et son Directorat de la libre-circulation et du tourisme organisent, cette semaine, à Dakar, au Sénégal, une réunion de responsables consulaires et de responsables de l’immigration de […]

Joint statement by West African National Human Rights Institutions

Published: 23/Fév/2015
Source: UNHCR

We, National Human Rights Institutions (NHRI) in West Africa first gathered at a meeting in Saly Portudal, Senegal, in April 2014 to discuss our engagement on statelessness, and gathered again here in Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire, during the expert meeting on […]

UNHCR brochure on statelessness in West Africa

Published: 23/Fév/2015
Source: UNHCR

Nationality is a legal bond between a state and an individual, and statelessness refers to the condition of an individual who is not considered as a national by any State. Everyone has the right to a nationality and the right […]