20 minute news report on the status of the Pemba community in Kenya (English & Swahili): Watch video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSlkEbTYjuI&ab_channel=KTNNews
The documentary highlights the importance of the first legal identification everyone should get and yet the very real obstacles that prevent people in some Kenyan communities from accessing this key documentation. It brings to the fore specific birth registration obstacles […]
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7V43hRwXuA
SABC Cutting Edge – 20 minute feature on children excluded from school for lack of birth registration (including those with South African parents). Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjD7g_D41L0
UNHCR and the Government of #GuineaBissau have successfully concluded the process of issuing identity cards for refugees living in the country +5000 refugees have been naturalized UNHCR & the US Government commend Guinea-Bissau for its hospitality. U.S. Department of State: […]
Safaarada Soomaaliya ee Nairobi oo lagu Eedeeyay in ay dhibaato ku heyso Muwaadiniin Soomaaliyeed oo ku Nool Waddanka Kenya. Watch video: https://www.facebook.com/qm252/videos/safaarada-soomaaliya-ee-nairobi-oo-lagu-eedeeyay-in-ay-dhibaato-ku-heyso-muwaadi/987610102097079/ English summary supplied by Minority Rights Group: The Somali embassy in Kenya has been harassing Somali nationals, including […]
Scores of people in Southern Africa are said to be stateless.. This effectively means that they would not be able to vote, get a drivers licence or even open a bank account and are considered not to ‘exist’ in their […]
Podcast host: W. Gyude Moore The scope and sophistication of ID systems have advanced remarkably in the last 20 years, with over 60 developing countries establishing national ID programs. And digital technologies, such as biometrics, have dramatically expanded the capabilities […]
Debate on the Report of the Departmental Committee on Administration and National Security. View debate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FksWzHoQhLY&t=8121s
Au Gabon, des milliers d’enfants non déclarés à la naissance ne seront pas admis dans les écoles. Ils sont appelés enfants fantômes ou invisibles. A Libreville comme à l’intérieur du pays, la réalité donne le vertige. 7400 enfants légalement invisibles […]
Ugandans who obtained dual citizenship in other Countries through falsified documents risk losing their Ugandan citizenship. This was revealed during a meeting organized by legislators of the East African Legislative Assembly in Kampala. Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXoGKgLuC4A
At age eighteen Georgiana was removed from her mother’s refugee file, a process called de-linking. She had to make her own asylum seeker application which is currently being reviewed by the Standing Committee of Refugee Affairs (SCRA). De-linking strips young […]