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Our joint statement sets out five priorities for African States to protect the right to nationality and #endstatelessness in Africa.
Swipe through and share this call for action 🌍👇🏾
On African Human Rights Day, we stand in solidarity with Animu and every stateless person in Africa.
We call on African States to #endstatelessness 🌍✊🏽
Happy #AfricanHumanRightsDay! ❤️✊🏾🌍
Grateful 2the African human rights system @achpr_cadhp 4restoring hope when all seemed lost. It reminds me that justice is always worth pursuing. 🙏🏿❤️
Shout-out 2 @IHRDAfrica &all keeping hope alive. #EndStatelessness
#RightToNationality
On African Human Rights Day, as we mark 40 years of the African Charter on Human and Peoples Rights, civil society calls for action to protect the right to nationality and to #endstatelessness in Africa. 🌍✊🏽
Read our joint statement:
Southern African Nationality Network (SANN) retweeted
#ACHPR89OS Day 3 begins with a panel discussion celebrating 65 years of the Conv. on the Redn. of Statelessness: Adv. 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
Southern African Nationality Network (SANN) retweeted
📢 On 9 Oct, LHR joined civil society organisations, human rights defenders and advocates at the NGO Forum of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights in Dakar, Senegal, for a discussion on advancing the right to a nationality and ending statelessness across Africa.
Southern African Nationality Network (SANN) retweeted
🌍✊🏽 Add your voice!
Ahead of #AfricanHumanRightsDay, we invite civil society, activists & allies to endorse our joint statement on nationality rights & statelessness in Africa.
📢 Deadline: 16 October 2026
@EndStatelessns @NOstatelessness @LHR_SA
🔗 docs.google.com/document/d/1…
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Southern African Nationality Network (SANN) retweeted
The African Union Protocol on the Right to a Nationality and the Eradication of Statelessness in Africa is a progressive normative framework for ensuring the respect for the right to a nationality and eradication of statelessness in Africa.
However, how responsive is the Protocol to certain gender aspects of nationality and statelessness?
Join us and our friends at @equalitynow as we examine the Gender Responsiveness of the Protocol.
❓ACHPR Side Event.
🇸🇳 Dakar, Senegal.
🕘 13th October 2026.
@equalitynow @SomGenderHub @NetworkSouthern @NOstatelessness @EndStatelessns @RefugeesAfrica
🌍✊🏽 Add your voice!
Ahead of #AfricanHumanRightsDay, we invite civil society, activists & allies to endorse our joint statement on nationality rights & statelessness in Africa.
📢 Deadline: 16 October 2026
@EndStatelessns @NOstatelessness @LHR_SA
🔗 docs.google.com/document/d/1…
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Africa now has an opportunity to strengthen the right to nationality and prevent statelessness.
Join us for this discussion at the NGO Forum in Dakar!
#ACHPR89 #RatifyR2NAfrica #EndStatelessness
Ending statelessness is not the work of one organisation or one community. Lasting change comes from building movements and coalitions across lived experience, civil society, lawyers, govts, regional institutions & allies.
Join us for this discussion at the NGO Forum in Dakar!
Strategic litigation and legal action can challenge laws, policies, and practices that keep people and communities excluded.
Join us for this discussion at the NGO Forum in Dakar!
#ACHPR89 #RatifyR2NAfrica #EndStatelessness @IHRDAfrica
Across the continent, insecure nationality continues to affect communities’ access to documentation, rights, services and recognition.
Join us for this discussion at the NGO Forum in Dakar!
#ACHPR89 #RatifyR2NAfrica #EndStatelessness
Statelessness is not only about legal status. It shapes whether people can access documents, education, work, movement, and full participation in society.
Join us for this discussion at the NGO Forum in Dakar!
#ACHPR89 #RatifyR2NAfrica #EndStatelessness @LHR_SA
The African human rights system has a critical role to play in protecting the right to nationality.
Join us for this discussion at the NGO Forum in Dakar!
#ACHPR89 #RatifyR2NAfrica #EndStatelessness
