The West Africa Consultative Conference on ‘the Right to a Nationality and Statelessness
Published: 9/Oct/2015
Source: UNHCR & OSIWA
The West Africa Consultative Conference on ‘the Right to a Nationality and Statelessness: Challenges and Opportunities’, co-organised by Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA) and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) was held at Ivotel Hotel in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, from 28-30 September 2015.
The Consultative Conference followed the Ministerial Conference on Statelessness for the Member States of the Economic Community Of West African States (ECOWAS) held from 23-25 February 2015 in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, in the context of the global 10-year Campaign to End Statelessness, and resulted in the Ministerial Declaration on the eradication of statelessness in the ECOWAS region, referred to as the ‘Abidjan Declaration.’ In this Declaration, approved by ECOWAS Heads of State and Government in Accra, Ghana on 19th May 2015, signatory States made important commitments in order to eradicate statelessness in West Africa.
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