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...

World Vision International in Ghana (WVG), in collaboration with the United Nations Children Fund, (UNICEF), has refurbished the Upper East Regional Births and Deaths Registry, with automated equipment and office furniture to attain full registration coverage of infants. The new registry will no...

Gagnoa, 21 août (AIP)- Le Haut-Commissariat aux Réfugiés (HCR) basé à Gagnoa, a organisé, dans le cadre de la lutte contre l’apatridie, mercredi à Dahiépa Kéhi (23 km Gagnoa), une session de renforcement de capacité des leaders communautaires, de ladite localité. L’objectif est d’instruire les...

Le lundi 23 septembre, une sensibilisation s’est tenue dans le village de Séguié, sous-préfecture d’Attobrou de 10 heures à 12 heures. Cette activité s’est déroulée en présence du chef du village et du responsable de l’état civil de la dite sous-préfecture à la demande de Mme le sous-préfet. Pa...

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...

“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...

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 ...