Afghanistan
Gender inequality in women's independent access to their own ID
In Afghanistan, for a woman to obtain a tazkira (ID document), the tazkira of a…
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Afghanistan
Marital status discrimination
In a 2009 report to the CRC, Afghanistan stated that the Department of Birth Registration…
Afghanistan
Legal gender discrimination
In 2020 CEDAW recommended that Afghanistan grant women and men equal rights with respect to…
Algeria
Babies born to nations without states
Since 1975 Algeria has hosted a stateless Sahrawi refugee population who live in five camps…
Algeria
Intergenerational statelessness among the migrant descended/minority groups
The Sahrawi in Algeria are a refugee-descended stateless population. Since 1975, three generations of Sahrawis…
Algeria
Born in transit
In Algeria, enforcement practices create distrust in national institutions, leading migrants and asylum seekers to…
Algeria
Gender + religious + ethnic discrimination
In Algeria, the Amazigh experience ethnic discrimination when seeking to register their children. The Imazighen,…
Algeria
Marital status discrimination
In 2012, the CRC expressed concern that in Algeria registration officers and family judges often…
Algeria
Blocked access to reproductive healthcare
According to a 2016 CSO report for the UPR, in Algeria discrimination targeting Sub-Saharan migrants,…
Algeria
Administrative earmarking
In Algeria, when a child born out of wedlock is registered, official documentation may mark…
Angola
Consolidation of postcolonial state control over territorial borders and borderlands through birth registration
In Angola, the process of consolidating sovereign control over the territory under their jurisdiction remains…
Angola
Refugee identity management
In 2023, Angola hosted over 56,000 refugees and asylum seekers, mostly from the DRC. However,…