“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...

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 ...

Angèle Dikongué-Atangana talks about the ongoing partnership between the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to improve the protection of the rights of asylum-seekers, refugees and those at risk of statelessness in West Afr...

Now an Ivorian citizen, the 59-year-old man finally feels he belongs to a nation Hundreds of thousands of persons are stateless or at risk of statelessness in Côte d’Ivoire. This population includes around 400,000 historical migrants, mainly from Burkina Faso, Mali and Guinea, and their descendan...

Achievements were presented at the consultative conference in Abidjan ABIDJAN, CÔTE D’IVOIRE, 2 October 2015 (UNHCR) – The consultative conference on citizenship and statelessness in West Africa ended this week after two days of fruitful exchanges in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, on 28-30 September. Th...

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...

L'apatridie désigne l'état d'une personne qui n’a ni patrie ni nationalité. Causes de l'apatridie en Afrique de l'Ouest « L’apatridie survient à la naissance, et même plus tard, dans la vie, pour des raisons techniques, administratives et politiques, en Afrique de l’Ouest où nous avons sillon...

Par Emmanuelle Bastide Diffusion : lundi 6 février 2017 7 milliards de voisins est à Abidjan ! Cette émission enregistrée à la BAD (Banque africaine de développement), en partenariat avec la compétition citoyenne Voix des Jeunes. 2 ans exactement après la Conférence d’Abidjan, où plusieurs pay...