Egypt is working to revoke the citizenship of Hamas leader Mahmoud al-Zahar, a senior official told Al Arabiya on Monday. According to Major General Hussein Ridi, Assistant Interior Minister for Passports and Citizenship, a proposal to revoke the citizenship of […]
Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights has facilitated the issuing of passports to two Zimbabwean sisters unconstitutionally regarded by the Registrar General’s office as aliens Edna and Margaret Silundu of Bulawayo were denied the travelling documents despite being born in Zimbabwe […]
As part of the efforts to finding a common consensus on issues of national development, the 2014 National Conference, on the 17th of April 2014, set up twenty committees amongst which is the Committee on Citizenship, Immigration and related matters […]
Étude réalisée par la Rapporteure spéciale sur les Réfugiés, les demandeurs d’asile, les personnes déplacées internes et les migrants en Afrique, conformément à la Résolution 234 du 23 avril 2013, avec l’approbation de la Commission accordée dans sa 55e session […]
La Commission africaine des droits de l’homme et des peuples (la Commission), réunie en sa 55ème Session ordinaire tenue à Luanda, en Angola, du 28 avril au 12 mai 2014. Rappelant les dispositions de l’article 45(1) (b) de la charte africaine des […]
A l’occasion de l’arrivée des rapatriés, qui marchaient depuis le 25 avril sur Nouakchott en provenance de Boghé soit plus de 300 km, des milliers de mauritaniens, hommes et femmes se sont mobilisés pour former un comité d’accueil. Exprimer sa […]
Authors: Kara Apland, Professor Carolyn Hamilton,Professor Brad K. Blitz, Professor Carolyn Hamilton, Mary Lagaay, Dr. Rajith Lakshman, and Elizabeth Yarrow. A four-country study commissioned by Plan International investigating the benefits of birth registration, covering India, Kenya, Sierra Leone and Vietnam. […]
Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) – The Zambian government and the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) have launched the Strategic Framework for the Local Integration of Former Refugees in Zambia, requiring US$20.9 million to implement. The Framework which was unveiled in the Zambian […]
9. Documentation for Liberian Refugees in the Countries of Asylum As to fairly implement the project related to passport issuance to refugees who opted for local integration in their countries of asylum, after the invocation of Cessation Clause, it is […]
Since the onset of Somaliland’s independence, the demand of civil registration and National ID seemed to be a key priority where the President of Somaliland has recently appointed two committees (steering committee and task force) to implement National Identity Card […]
L’article 6 de la Charte africaine des droits et du bien-être de l’enfant prévoit: Tout enfant a droit à un nom dès sa naissance; Tout enfant est enregistré immédiatement après sa naissance; Tout enfant a le droit d’acquérir une nationalité […]
By Bronwen Manby Tanzania is just starting a major debate on a new constitution for the country, to replace the version adopted in 1977. Among the many reforms proposed to existing laws, the draft proposed by the Constitutional Review Commission […]