The Ministry of Internal Affairs and United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) have said they would jointly commemorate the first anniversary of the Abidjan Declaration to Eradicate Statelessness in West Africa by 2024 on Thursday, 25 February, 2016. Last year, ministers from the 15 Eco...

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...

L’apatridie est un problème important en Afrique, encore aujourd’hui au 21ème siècle, on compte 1 million d’apatrides en Afrique de l’Ouest. Comment expliquer cela ? Dans son article, Zakri Blé Damonoko Anicet, pose la problématique de l’apatridie en Afrique de l’Ouest et en explique les fondements ...

Participants at the just ended National Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability conference in Accra have lauded Ghana’s automated birth registration programme, an initiative between Tigo, UNICEF and the Ghana Births and Deaths Registry. Making a presentation to conference participants drawn f...

hen the United Nations Children Fund, UNICEF in collaboration with the Bauchi state government and the National Population Commission, NPC, flagged off the massive birth registration campaign of children under the age of five years in the state, residents of communities heaved a sigh of relief that ...

La communauté Sant’Egidio (coopération italienne) via son programme BRAVO !, en collaboration avec le ministère de l’administration territoriale et de la décentralisation, a organisé un atelier de formation au profit d’acteurs de l’état civil pour l’enregistrement universel des naissances au Burkina...