Join this seminar as speakers examine the adoption, content, and implementation prospects of Africa’s new treaty on statelessness and nationality.
In February 2024, the African Union adopted 'The Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on Specific Aspects of the Right to a Nationality and the Eradication of Statelessness in Africa', marking a major continental milestone in efforts to end statelessness.
Among the issues addressed by the protocol are the commitment to ensuring the right to a nationality for everyone, preventing the arbitrary deprivation of citizenship, eradicating statelessness, and resolving issues of nationality for nomadic/cross-border populations. The protocol provides a legal framework for states to address these challenges.
Two years after the adoption of the protocol, this webinar will broadly focus on how to make it work. Speakers will outline the history of its adoption, including the pre-existing jurisprudence of the African human rights institutions, and the debates before the political bodies of the African Union. The discussion will also examine the content of the protocol in comparative context, including its contribution to international law; and the future prospects for its ratification and implementation.
N.B. Please note this webinar will be recorded.
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