Extracts relevant to Africa: Mobilizing governments and civil society On 25 May, the League of Arab States (LAS), in partnership with UNHCR, convened the virtual “Arab Regional Conference: Towards an Action Plan on Belonging and Legal Identity”. The conference resulted […]
Un projet de loi visant à n’autoriser la candidature à la présidentielle qu’aux seuls Congolais nés de père et de mère congolais a été déposé au Parlement. La majorité de Félix Tshisekedi se déchire sur le sujet. « Pour des raisons […]
Aminetou Errer Bouzeid, LEFRIG Project Coordinator and Social Worker The exact number of people who were forcibly displaced in the 1970s to the Tindouf refugee camps set up by the Algerian state is unknown, but estimated at hundreds of thousands […]
[déposée au parlement le 8 juillet 2021] EXPOSE DES MOTIFS La loi n°04024 du 12 novembre 2004 relative à la nationalité congolaise demeure plus d’une décennie près, après sa promulgation un monument Juridique ayant traité de toutes les questions relatives […]
par Joël Otshudi JOA Le député national Nsingi Pululu a déposé, ce jeudi 8 juillet 2021, au service administratif de l’Assemblée nationale la proposition de loi sur la congolité initiée par l’ex-candidat à la présidentielle de 2018, Noël Tshiani. Après […]
By Murphy Nganga Cape Town – A heartbroken matriculant from Kensington High School initiated a petition to request that the Department of Home Affairs establish a matric ID or citizenship helpline for stateless children who are yet to write their […]
[Culled from Fatou Jaw Manneh Facebook] Africans’ daal. Let me just start with the Gambia. Remember when US President Joe Biden announced he was going to give 11 million immigrants legal status and a path to citizenship? Gambians especially were […]
A Kensington matric learner and deputy head girl of her school says her right to education is being violated. Karolyn Mujinga (18) was born in South Africa to a Congolese mother. But she says for the past two years she […]
Introduction Birth registration is a fundamental right and an enabler of other rights as it bestows a legal identity on children for life. If a child is not registered, they do not officially exist and are vulnerable to violence, abuse, […]
Au Sénégal, l’enregistrement d’un enfant à la naissance est un droit. Mais dans beaucoup de localités, c’est loin d’être la réalité. Malheureusement, c’est à l’école que le phénomène se fait sentir. Car beaucoup d’enfants, jusqu’à l’âge de 10 ans, voire […]
This Is Home is a campaign that documents the lives of inspiring young people in South Africa who are stateless or at risk of becoming stateless. The campaign provides explainers on statelessness and practical solutions for The Department of Home […]
Darren Ekema Ewumbue Monono Pan African University, Institute of Governance, Humanities and Social Sciences Abstract The right to nationality, enshrined in art 15 of the Universal Declaration on Human Rights, is absent in the 1981 African Charter on Human and […]