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...

Although Ghana pledged in 2015 to end statelessness in 2016, it still remains one of the few West African countries yet to implement the national action plan to eradicate statelessness. The Abidjan Declaration was adopted in 2015 by Head of States of the Economic Community of West African States ...

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 ...

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, Reuters reports human rights experts as saying on Monday. Stateless people, sometim...

Ms Marie-Pierre Poirier, Regional Director, United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), says about 40 million children under five are unregistered in the West African region Poirier made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Tuesday in Banjul at the end of the Ministerial...

APA-Abidjan (Côte d’Ivoire)- Les ministres de la Justice et de l’Intérieur des Etats membres de la Communauté Economique des Etats de l’Afrique de l’Ouest (CEDEAO) ont adopté, à Banjul en Gambie, un plan d’action régional pour l’éradication de l’apatridie en Afrique de l’Ouest. Le communiqué d...

L'Organisation sous régionale a ébauché un plan visant à permettre aux milliers de personnes sans papiers et sans nationalité reconnue de pouvoir exister officiellement. Selon un spécialiste, en Afrique de l'Ouest, l'apatridie, due à une législation restrictive en matière de transmission de nationa...

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...

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...