By Rumbidzai Dube, Senior Researcher, RAU This report addresses a fundamental issue that most people are aware of, but rarely give much attention to until they are personally affected; acquiring identity documents and citizenship. It is common knowledge that there […]
By Tichaona Sibanda Zimbabweans in the Diaspora will be disappointed to note that dual citizenship is not enshrined in the new constitution, whose draft was released this week. Despite statements from MDC-T officials in COPAC that dual citizenship was in […]
By Toluwani Eniola NewsRescue- When will Nigerians be accorded the full-fledged rights of citizens in their country, irrespective of whatever region of the country they are born and bred? This question has remained a mirage. One of the undoings of […]
CRC/C/DZA/CO/3-4 Enregistrement des naissances 37.Le Comité juge positif que les naissances soient pratiquement toutes enregistrées dans l’État partie. Toutefois, il est préoccupé par le fait que: a)Souvent les agents de l’état-civil et les juges aux affaires familiales refusent d’enregistrer les […]
CAIRO, 18 juillet 2012 Peu de Bédouins de la péninsule du Sinaï, en Égypte, pensent à enregistrer leur mariage. Une feuille de palmier offerte par le père de la mariée à son beau-fils suffit à sceller cette union dont la […]
These Guidelines are aimed at assisting States to ensure that stateless persons receive such status in their jurisdictions. They address the treatment of persons determined to be stateless by a State under the 1954 Convention, the position of individuals awaiting […]
The Registrar General has announced that marriages that were solemnised by at least 716 marriage officers that have gone underground face cancellation while mass weddings have been banned. External file: Zimbabwe bans mass weddings
The daughter of Col. Patrick Karegeya, the exiled former Rwandan spymaster, is stranded in Kampala after Kigali stripped her of citizenship and Uganda hurriedly withdrew an alternative passport a week after issuing it. Portia Mbabazi Karegeya, 23, told this newspaper […]
LSE’s Katy Long argues that the West African model which allows refugees to become migrants is one way to end protracted refugees situations. There is a poster (see below) in my office at LSE. A shot of subway graffiti reading […]
By Charles Gichane NAIROBI, Kenya, July 11 – A Kenyan immigration lawyer based in the United States has cautioned Kenyans who are re-applying for their Kenyan citizenship and hence becoming dual citizens, to tread carefully and ensure they do not […]
By Sarnata Reynolds, Refugees International One year after South Sudan gained independence, many southerners are still waiting for the slips of paper that will prove they are citizens of the world’s newest nation and grant them access to employment, a […]
By Tichaona Sibanda For the first time in Zimbabwe’s history the new constitution will allow dual citizenship, a situation that could be capitalized on by people living in the Diaspora, to push for their right to vote in the next […]