The UNHCR and ECOWAS recently signed an MoU to improve the protection environment for stateless persons. Pierre is eighteen years old. He was born to Burkinabe parents in Ghana. He was not registered at birth and neither were his parents. An orphan with no nationality, Pierre is stateless. Whi...

45.000 personnes apatrides ou à risque d'apatridie en Afrique de l’Ouest ont reçu des documents d'identité au cours des 18 derniers mois. DAKAR, SÉNÉGAL, 27 octobre 2016 (HCR) - Des progrès significatifs ont été accomplis pour éradiquer l'apatridie dans le monde entier, mais les conflits en cours...

Paris et onze pays d'Afrique de l'Ouest ont décidé de resserrer leur coopération dans la lutte contre le terrorisme jihadiste qui reste une priorité dans la bande sahélo-saharienne et en France. En début de semaine les ministres de l'intérieur et de la défense des 11 pays de l'Afrique de l'Ouest se ...

THE 50th ORDINARY SUMMIT OF THE ECONOMIC COMMUNITY OF WEST AFRICAN STATES (ECOWAS) Abuja, 17 December 2016 Speech by Dr. Mohamed Ibn Chambas, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Office for West Africa and the Sahel (UNOWAS) Your Excellency Madam...

1 July – 31 December 2016 By Mohamed Ibn Chambas Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of UNOWAS New York, 13 January 2017 Monsieur le Président, Distingués membres du Conseil, 1. C’est un honneur pour moi de me retrouver devant cette auguste assemblée, pou...

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Commission wishes to congratulate the entire Community citizens on the occasion of the maiden celebration of the ECOWAS Human Rights Day. This celebration places a particular focus on the promotion and protection of women’s rights in all its ram...

30 January 2017 – In his first address to the African Union since taking office, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres today underscored the importance of a strategic AU-UN partnership for building sustainable development and advancing peace and security on the continent. Speaking in ...

A Banjul, à partir de ce dimanche 7 mai et jusqu'à mardi, le Haut-Commissariat aux réfugiés (HCR, qui gère aussi les apatrides) et la Cédéao organisent une réunion ministérielle pour traiter le problème de l'apatridie en Afrique de l'Ouest. Le continent est fortement touché par la question de ces pe...

Experts from within West Africa and outside are meeting in The Gambia to review a draft 8-year Plan of Action which set forth concrete measures to end statelessness in the sub-region by the year 2024. The Plan of Action is developed in line with the Abidjan Declaration adopted by the 15 ECOWAS me...

By Kieran Guilbert DAKAR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - West Africa has become the first region in the world to adopt an action plan to end statelessness, aiming to help more than one million people without a nationality gain identity papers with new laws and better data, human rights experts said ...