Bronwen Manby « Nationality and Statelessness Among Persons of Western Saharan Origin », Journal of Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Law, Vol.34, No. 1, February 2020, pp.9-29 Download at LSE e-prints: http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/103816/
The 2019 Shona Socio-Economic Assessment Survey report studies data on Shona households living in and around Kenya’s Nairobi and Kiambu counties. The Shona community is a stateless population originating from Zimbabwe and Zambia. This groundbreaking report is the first of […]
By ROSE MIREMBE Tanzania will from Saturday enforce the use of the new East African Community electronic passport (e-passport) as its official international travel document. Phasing out of the old passports will end on March 1 to allow Tanzanians in […]
A Kenyan court has ordered the government to stop implementation of its the National Integrated Identity Management System (NIIMS) until a constitutionally sound framework is in place, following a legal challenge by Kenyan civil society groups supported by the Justice […]
The government of Kenya introduced the National Integrated Identity Management System, NIIMS, which came to be popularly known as Huduma Namba in January 2019. NIIMS was to put in place a new centralized and digital population register as a “single […]
Consolidated Petitions No. 56, 58 & 59 of 2019 Background (extract from Interim Judgment of 1 April 2019): 1. On 20th November 2018 the National Assembly voted in favour of the enactment into law of the Statute Law (Miscellaneous Amendment) […]
By Zvamaida Murwira The Government has partnered the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) in a census for people living in the Diaspora to ensure they access the requisite national documents. The project is part of a collective effort to fight […]
Millions face hurdles in obtaining documents to get a biometric ID card that will be required to function in the country. Without one, “you are totally a living dead,” a human rights advocate said. By Abdi Latif Dahir For all […]
En cela, la procédure d’acquisition de la nationalité congolaise devrait être respectée par des lois particulières et aussi des aménagements concernant le ius soli, et le ius sanguinus pour éviter ce problème sur la nationalité. Cette raison peut expliquer la […]
In Cape Town’s Phillipi township, one woman is fighting to secure nationality for herself and her child. by Jamaine Krige & Yeshiel Panchia Luthando*, 28: ‘I went to court and I won the case but I am still stateless’ It […]
CRC/C/DJI/3-5 Comité des droits de l’enfant Rapport valant troisième à cinquième rapports périodiques soumis par Djibouti en application de l’article 44 de la Convention, attendu en 2012 A.Enregistrement des naissances 162.L’enregistrement des naissances, loin d’être une simple formalité administrative, constitue […]
ANNUAL MESSAGE TO THE THIRD SESSION OF THE FIFTY-FOURTH NATIONAL LEGISLATURE OF THE REPUBLIC OF LIBERIA DELIVERED BY HIS EXCELLENCY DR. GEORGE MANNEH WEAH PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF LIBERIA THE CAPITOL BUILDING CAPITOL HILL MONROVIA, LIBERIA 27 JANUARY 2020 […]