La communauté économique des Etats de l’Afrique de l’Ouest (CEDEAO) a adopté officiellement le mardi 9 mai, lors d’une conférence ministérielle à Banjul, en Gambie, un plan d’élimination du phénomène de privation de nationalité, appelé apatride. « L’Afrique de l’Ouest se pose en leader de la...

Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs, Retired Major Ismael Sengu Koroma over the weekend reassured the international community and the West Africa Countries that Sierra Leone was highly committed to fight against statelessness. The Deputy Minister made this declaration in Banjul, The Gambia at the M...

Biometric identification is helping to combat statelessness in Africa, with a United Nations official lauding such efforts in a recent speech. Speaking at the Regional Ministerial-level Meeting on Statelessness in West Africa, the UNHCR Regional Representative for West Africa and Regional Refugee...

Grâce à l’appui financier de l’Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie, le Réseau des Associations et ONG Togolaises pour l’Education aux Droits de l’Homme a effectué ce mardi à Lomé le lancement d’un projet intitulé : « Promotion des droits des migrants et réduction des cas d’apatridie au To...

Les statistiques de 2013 indiquent qu’il y a environ 600.000 apatrides en Côte d’Ivoire que l’on n’arrive pas à localiser aisément. Lutte contre l’apatridie : La CNDHCI sensibilise La Commission nationale des droits de l’homme de Côte d’Ivoire (Cndhci) a organisé, hier, une table ronde sur l’apa...

The Global Campaign for Equal Nationality Rights joyfully welcomes the passage of Sierra Leone’s amended Citizenship Act, which now guarantees women and men the equal right to confer nationality on children. With this critical reform, only 25 countries remain worldwide that deny women the ability to...

The West-African nation of Guinea Bissau became the 10th State to have acceded to one or both of the Statelessness Conventions since the launch of UNHCR’s ‘#IBelong Campaign to End Statelessness by 2024’ two years ago. This marks an important step towards the eradication of statelessness and strengt...

DAKAR, SENEGAL, 27 October 2016 (UNHCR) – Significant progress has been made to eradicate statelessness around the world, but ongoing conflicts are putting those advances at risk. Marking the second anniversary of the global #IBelong Campaign to End Statelessness, UN High Commissioner for Refugees, ...

Senegalese rap group Bideew Bou Bess is calling attention to the plight of those who are stateless with their new song “I belong.” According to the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR), there are over 10 million people around the world who have fled their homes and been rendered stateless or wit...

DAKAR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - More than 20,000 people in West Africa have gained identity documents in the past year as part of a drive to eradicate statelessness, yet around one million in the region still have no nationality, the United Nations said on Thursday. Stateless people, sometim...