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Title The right to birth registration of foreign children in South Africa: A human rights perspective
Full text http://hdl.handle.net/11394/8985
Date 2021
Author(s) Sibanda, Mlamuli
Contributor(s) Mezmur, Benyam Dawit
Abstract Magister Legum - LLM - International law explains the significance of the right to a birth certificate,1 birth registration and what it means to be a national of a specific state.2 International law also explains how important the right to birth registration is and how it has historically been connected to the right to nationality.3 Legal scholars have over the years provided insights as to how international and national law can best address the right to birth registration.4 In South Africa the DHA does not issue birth certificates to children born to undocumented non-South Africans or documented non-South Africans with both parents holders of foreign documentation with the exception of non-South Africans with permanent residential permit.
Subject(s) Refugee; Birth registration; Deportation; Nationality; Xenophobia; Discrimination
Language en
Publisher University of the Western Cape
Format application/pdf
Rights University of the Western Cape
Repository Cape Town - Theses and Dissertations, University of Western Cape
Added to C-A: 2022-04-21;07:34:44