Ivory Coast will ratify an international treaty on statelessness next week, a step that will make it easier for hundreds of thousands of Ivorian children now living in limbo to get access to education, healthcare and jobs, the U.N. refugee agency said.
President Alassane Ouattara signed a presidential decree on Tuesday, the final step before official ratification of two statelessness conventions at the UN General Assembly on Tuesday next week, UNHCR representative to the Ivory Coast Ann Encontre told Thomson Reuters Foundation.
...
AllAfrica Subscription Content
You must be an allAfrica.com subscriber for full access to certain content.
You have selected an article from the AllAfrica archive, which requires a subscription. You can subscribe by visiting our subscription page. Or for more information about becoming a subscriber, you can read our subscription and contribution overview.
For information about our premium subscription services:
You can also freely access - without a subscription - hundreds of today's top Africa stories and thousands of recent news articles from our home page »
Already a subscriber? Sign in for full access to article