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17 October 2019
www.dailymaverick.co.za
Last week, hundreds of asylum-seekers camped outside the United Nations Human Rights Council offices in Cape Town demanding that the commission help them leave South Africa due to xenophobia and a broken asylum system. But the problems facing migrant communities is not limited to the Mother City — and undocumented migrant children are the most vulnerable group that often fall through the cracks.
17 October 2019
www.herald.co.zw
The Government has intensified efforts to reduce the passport backlog after Treasury came up with a payment plan to suppliers of consumables who are owed an undisclosed amount of money.
17 October 2019
www.breitbart.com
Around 50 percent of African children are not registered at birth and effectively stateless, often meaning they cannot access essential social services such as healthcare and education, a United Nations study revealed Tuesday.
17 October 2019
www.africanews.com
17 October 2019
https://reliefweb.int/
Zambia is committed to the registration of vital events occurring among refugees and internally displaced persons with 1,465 refugees provided with identity cards in 2018, according to Home Affairs Minister Stephen Kampyongo.
17 October 2019
www.iciniger.com
En effet, la Commission Economique des Nations Unies pour l’Afrique (CEA), à travers son bureau sous régional pour l’Afrique de l’Ouest, coorganise avec le Centre Régional d’Excellence en Economie Générationnelle (CREG) cette première Edition de la Conférence NTA-AFRICA avec la collaboration du Fonds des Nations Unies pour la Population (UNFPA), les Universités partenaires et les partenaires au...
17 October 2019
http://reussirbusiness.com
Une vingtaine de journalistes africains ont bénéficié d’une formation sur l’utilisation efficace des données des faits de l’état civil et des statistiques de l’état civil (CRVS) dans le journalisme en santé publique, lors de la cinquième conférence des ministres africains responsables des CRVS (COM5) qui se tient du 14 au 18 octobre à Lusaka (Zambie).
16 October 2019
zambiareports.com
Home Affairs Minister Stephen Kampyongo says Africa has an opportunity to resolve the crisis of children born without being recorded or accounted for. Kampyongo said today that there is therefore need to craft mechanisms that will provide birth records.
16 October 2019
https://zambiareports.com
Home Affairs Minister Stephen Kampyongo says Africa has an opportunity to resolve the crisis of children born without being recorded or accounted for.
Kampyongo said today that there is therefore need to craft mechanisms that will provide birth records.
Speaking at a press conference held at Intercontinental hotel in Lusaka, Kampyongo said Africa had an opportunity to quash what is known as the...
16 October 2019
diggers.news
Home Affairs Minister Stephen Kampyongo says 750,000 people in Africa have no proof of legal identity because of not being registered at birth.
16 October 2019
fr.allafrica.com
Les progrès technologiques offrent à l’Afrique une opportunité importante de numériser ses systèmes d’état civil et de statistiques d’état civil, grâce à laquelle les avantages stratégiques de l’identité juridique pour tous peuvent être exploités pour le développement du continent.
16 October 2019
www.lephareonline.net
La cinquième Conférence des ministres africains responsables des données d’état civil, ouverte le lundi 14 octobre à Lusaka, en Zambie, a souligné la nécessité de la mise en place d’un système moderne et complet de collecte des faits d’état civil et des statistiques d’état civil (CRVS).
16 October 2019
Daily Monitor (local newspaper)
15 October 2019
www.voanews.com
The United Nations says about half of all children in Africa are not registered at birth, a lapse that prevents them from accessing essential social services such as health and education. The U.N. says a number of African countries are working towards addressing this problem, but the countries say resources to make that a reality are scarce.
15 October 2019
www.ghanabusinessnews.com
Civil registration is important. It is the first step to gaining legal identity, and among others, citizenship, but half of the population in Africa are not registered at birth.
15 October 2019
maghrebemergent.info
La problématique d’enregistrement des faits d’état civil et ses statistiques devient de plus en plus insoutenable pour les Etats africain. La Banque mondiale estime que plus d’un milliard de personnes dans le monde n’ont pas d’identité juridique, dont la moitié (environ 500 millions) sont en Afrique.
15 October 2019
www.newtimes.co.rw
African ministers responsible for civil registration are gathering in Lusaka, Zambia where they are discussing ways to improve civil registration, a practice where governments record vital events such as births, marriages, divorces, and deaths of their citizens and residents.
15 October 2019
allafrica.com
The Fifth Conference of African Ministers responsible for civil registration and vital statistics (CRVS), opened here with government officials from member countries pledging to strengthen mechanisms for the registration of their people.
15 October 2019
www.ghanaianews.com
The Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) presented the report pursuant to ministerial declarations and the status of Civil registration and Vital Statistics (CRVS) in Africa, following the official opening ceremony of the 5th Conference of African Ministers responsible for CRVS.
15 October 2019
africabusinesscommunities.com
Advances in technology present Africa with an important opportunity for the digitalization of its civil registration and vital statistics systems through which the strategic benefits of legal identity for all can be harnessed for the continent’s development.
15 October 2019
encomium.ng
The Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) presented the report pursuant to ministerial declarations and the status of Civil registration and Vital Statistics (CRVS) in Africa, following the official opening ceremony of the 5th Conference of African Ministers responsible for CRVS.
15 October 2019
www.voanews.com
The United Nations says about half of all children in Africa are not registered at birth, a lapse that prevents them from accessing essential social services such as health and education. The U.N. says a number of African countries are working towards addressing this problem, but the countries say resources to make that a reality are scarce.
15 October 2019
www.ghanabusinessnews.com
Civil registration is important. It is the first step to gaining legal identity, and among others, citizenship, but half of the population in Africa are not registered at birth.