African Union Convention for the Protection and Assistance of Internally Displaced Persons in Africa (Kampala Convention, 2009) African Guiding Principals on the Human Rights of all Migrants, Refugees and Asylum-seekers (2023) These Guiding Principles provide a comprehensive human rights framework for all Treaty body: African Commission on Human migrants in Africa—including stateless migrants. and People’s Rights Principle 23 on Nationality states that: Ratification status: 34 African States Key article(s): Article 13 1. `Every migrant nationality; has the States right must to a eradicate statelessness The Kampala Convention protects internally displaced persons (IDPs). 2. Every State must grant nationality to a person born in its territory who would otherwise be stateless. Although it does not mention statelessness 3. Every State must grant nationality to a explicitly, Article 13 requires States to register migrant child found abandoned in its IDPs and issue identity documents and birth territory certificates stateless. who would otherwise be 4. Every child of migrants has the right to These measures help prevent statelessness among displaced populations within their own countries. acquire the nationality of either or both parents. 5. Every migrant has the right to retain their nationality or acquire the nationality of their spouse. 6. Every migrant has the right not be arbitrarily deprived or denied nationality nor denied nationality 7. States shall provide a certificate of nationality to naturalized migrants. These principles strengthen existing regional and international obligations and offer a powerful advocacy tool to promote migrant-inclusive and statelessness-sensitive migration governance across the continent. 26