Catégories pour Non classifié(e)

Western Sahara: From colonial subjects to stateless refugees

Published: 8/Juil/2021
Source: European Network on Statelessness

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 […]

Opinion: Barrow must grant citizenship to immigrants in Gambia!!!

Published: 7/Juil/2021
Source: The Point (Banjul)

[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 […]

South Africa: Struggle to get ID

Published: 6/Juil/2021
Source: News24 (Johannesburg)

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 […]

Background Note on Sex Discrimination in Birth Registration

Published: 6/Juil/2021
Source: UNHCR & UNICEF

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, […]

Sénégal: examens scolaires, 184 885 élèves sans état civil

Published: 4/Juil/2021
Source: le soleil

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 […]

South Africa: This Is Home – Nephtali

Published: 2/Juil/2021
Source: Jesuit Institute South Africa

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 […]

People’s Right to a Nationality and the Eradication of Statelessness in Africa

Published: 1/Juil/2021
Source: Statelessness and Citizenship Review

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 […]

Sénégal: Non-déclaration des enfants : Un cas d’écoles

Published: 1/Juil/2021
Source: le quotidien

En dépit des efforts et des campagnes de sensibilisation, la situation de l’état civil ne s’améliore pas. A la veille des examens (début du Bac technique ce matin), plusieurs centaines de potaches commencent à stresser de cette situation. Alors qu’au […]