#RightToNationality

Lawyers for Human Rights

@lhr-sa.bsky.social

6 months ago

📢 Lawyers, we need you! Join our pro bono network to help stateless persons secure their ID, birth certificate, and rights.

🖋️ Sign up: lnkd.in/dc5R-Zma

Watch the webinar: 🎥 youtu.be/83I7rshws9Q

#HerDocumentHerDignity #ProBono #Statelessness #RightToNationality

Bronwen Manby

@bronwenmanby.bsky.social

10 months ago

Important report a long time in the making - on the relationship of #digitalID to foundational #legalidentity for refugees in Kenya - including, ultimately, the #righttonationality

Lawyers for Human Rights

@lhr-sa.bsky.social

10 months ago

Six distinctions but no ID: Top matriculant’s hope of becoming a doctor crushed “My mother was a citizen, yet I cannot get an ID” says Emmanuel Ndlovu

"He submitted the affidavit, DNA tests and his naturalisation certificate to Home Affairs, but without success." Thousands of people in South Africa continue to struggle with statelessness every day!

#EndStatelessness #RightToNationality #ChildRights

groundup.org.za/article/star...

Bronwen Manby

@bronwenmanby.bsky.social

11 months ago

Épreuves de nationalité: New special edition of the Revue Délibérée, a "journal of critical reflection on justice, rights and liberties" considers "the variable geometry of [French] nationality and the role of justice in this process" #righttonationality
revue-deliberee.org/numeros/epre...

Bronwen Manby

@bronwenmanby.bsky.social

1 year ago

New article on long-term refugees aiming to "recover the core function of all three durable solutions, namely the (re)gaining of citizenship". #righttonationality

Bronwen Manby

@bronwenmanby.bsky.social

1 year ago

Egyptian political-legal tussle over framing of personal law continues with withdrawal of second version of proposed bill on marriage, divorce, custody of children, etc - rules critical not only for family rights but also #legalidentity & the #righttonationality
www.loc.gov/item/global-...