The United Nations High Commission on Refugees has stressed the need for urgent action against childhood statelessness. UNHCR says stateless children across the world share similar feelings of discrimination, frustration and despair. Speaking Tuesday in Monrovia at press conference, UNHCR Deputy ...

“Identity document is important, identity document is life” To prevent former Liberian refugees in West Africa from becoming stateless, the Liberian government has been conducting re-assesment missions of those at risk of statelessness in countries where they have sought asylum. DAKAR, SENEGAL...

UNHCR and Government of Liberia Host Workshop on Statelessness MONROVIA, 30 JAN 2015 — UNHCR and the Government of Liberia through the LRRRC will host a two-day training workshop on statelessness 3-4 February as part of a global push to end the problem worldwide within 10 years. UN High Comm...

By Bridgett Milton The United Nations High Commission on Refugees has stressed the need for urgent action against childhood statelessness. UNHCR says stateless children across the world share similar feelings of discrimination, frustration and despair. Speaking Tuesday in Monrovia at press con...

Abidjan, 02 fév (AIP) – L’Agence des Nations Unies pour les réfugiés en Côte d’Ivoire en collaboration avec l’organisation « Social Change Factory » organisera, vendredi, une compétition internationale sur l’apatridie, au siège de la Banque Africaine de Développement (BAD) à Abidjan. Les compétiteu...

Les Sénégalais ne dépenseront plus un franc pour avoir un extrait de naissance. Le chef de l’Etat a pris la décision de rendre gratuite la délivrance des actes d’état civil. « Le président de la République, Macky Sall, a pris, ce 3 février 2017, le décret n° 2017 – 229 portant dispense des droits de...

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...

Officials from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), along with the U.N. refugee agency (UNHCR), have adopted the world’s first action plan to eradicate statelessness. Stateless people do not have citizenship in any country and often do not have access to work, education or heal...

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...