West Africa is on track to eradicate statelessness by 2024

Three years after the adoption of the Abidjan Declaration, much progress has been made towards eradicating statelessness in West Africa

December 18, 2017 News

West Africa: Ensuring effective alternatives to dangerous journeys

Strengthening protection and solutions for refugees and asylum seekers in West Africa is critical in response to mixed migratory flows.

November 5, 2017 News

West Africa mobilized to ensure that everyone has the right to a nationality

One million people are stateless or at risk of statelessness in West Africa, essentially because of gaps in nationality laws and obstacles in administrative procedures to establish proof of nationality

February 26, 2016 Stories

Fighting statelessness in Benin: birth certificates are distributed in the disputed area of Kourou-Koualou

“I will now be able to go to school! I hope one day to become a teacher”

November 21, 2014 News

Strengthening asylum policy and the fight against statelessness on the agenda of a high level meeting

The new asylum project is based on a strong tradition of hospitality and of protection for refugees in the country

November 4, 2014 Stories

“We’re citizens of nowhere”, the plight of stateless persons on Île aux Oiseaux

Some 2,000 persons live on the small island with no identity papers. Île aux Oiseaux was transferred to Benin in 2005, after a border dispute with Niger, but the international Justice decision failed to determine the nationality of its inhabitants.