The revision of the voters list, from 18 to 24 June 2018 has just begun. As required document, a National Identity Card (NIC) or, failing that, a Certificate of Identity. These identity certificates must be duly established by the National Identification Office (NIO), the only body authorized to legally issue such documents. Enlistment will also target people of voting age, but who are not registered and who want to do so, those who have changed residences and those who have changed their surname. In this last batch, there are people who have changed their name by marriage. An elector who wants to change polling place will have to go to the place where he wishes to vote. For this category of people who already has the status of elector and who wants a change, you only need the voter card. Otherwise, you will have to bring a National Identity Card or Identity Certificate.

Young people from PLANETE PAIX were on Thursday, June 7th, at the “Expression Jeunes” show at RTI headquarters in COCODY. This program was hosted by the journalist Serge Willy on: “The impact of volunteering on young people employability in Côte d’Ivoire”. The guest of the day was Mrs. Georgette KOUASSI, Director of Volunteering and Civic Service at the Ministry of Youth Promotion, Youth Employment and Civic Service. In her exchange with the participants, she clarified the points on the notions of volunteering. The volunteer offers his commitment freely to provide solutions to problems in society. Volunteering concerns all categories, depending on the availability of the person and the free nature of the service it offers. The volunteer does full-time work according to certain defined criteria and receives a remuneration in return. The Director presented the National Volunteer Program which will last for 3 years. It helps to strengthen the professionalism and civic sense of young people. The program takes into account any young Ivorian from 18 to 35 years old. Representatives of PLANETE PAIX took the opportunity to discuss the role played by the organization in order to involve young people as key actors for positive and sustainable change in their community.

PLANÈTE PAIX was among the SCOs invited to the 4th meeting chaired by the Minister of the Interior and Security and the Minister of Women, Child Protection and Solidarity as part of the consultations of the Society Civilian by the Ivorian authorities on Tuesday, June 5, 2018, at 4 pm, at the conference room of the Ministry of the Interior and Security. Indeed, it was a question of exchanging on topical topics which have been the object of particular concerns on the part of the Civil Society these last weeks such as:
the phenomenon of delinquent children and domestic security;
the marital status and identity cards;
national reconciliation and the point on compensation for victims.
In the course of the meeting, the Minister of Child Protection and Solidarity state-of-the-art on the compensation of the victims which has only took into account the deceased persons and those who have suffered bodily injuries. Following him, the Minister of the Interior and Security pointed out that the civil status in Côte d’Ivoire has been the subject of several demographic studies and that these studies have shown that 35% of children under the age of 5 years are not declared to the registry office. Thus, in the search for solutions, the State of Côte d’Ivoire set up a technical committee that resulted in strategic and operational evaluations. And strategic and operational assessments are contained in a document called the National Vital and Identification Strategy. The national civil registration and identification strategy will enable us to design a unique, integrated, global, reliable and secure identification system that will centralize all the biometric and biological data of each Ivorian and will allow to attribute to each individual a Unique National Number or UNN. This number will allow traceability of all individuals, the constitution of a unique biometric database, the improvement of the efficiency of the public service, the optimization of social and tax policy, the aggregation of all data on the same individual but especially the quick and easy issuance of identity documents, ie national identity cards, nationality certificates, driving licenses, passports, the birth certificate, Resident cards in short, everything that an individual living in a territory needs to make his life easier. This will also allow any Ivorian regardless of his geographical location to be able to obtain the document having to do with his identity. In addition, he reviewed the mechanisms put in place to curb the phenomenon of children in conflict with the law. Exchanges between the authorities and civil society organizations sanctioned the meeting to fix the grey areas.

The President Achille COMOÉ started the meeting with information on the two main activities of the year 2018. Then he asked the different delegations to take stock of their different missions. Speaking first, the representative of the Mermoz section gave us a brief summary of the human rights activity that took place on May 25, 2018 at carrefour-cocody Saint Jean Bookstore. This activity began according to the President of the section PLANETE PAIX Mermoz, by speeches and two panels that have the respective theme: – Right to health and right to education – Security, the right to vote and democracy. Before ending the activity, the panelists urged the youth to more information and especially to the knowledge of their right. As for Miss Bédjé, the Africa Day held at the headquarters of the African Union in Côte d’Ivoire on Friday, May 25, 2018 began at 3:45 pm around the theme: “Winning the fight against corruption, a sustainable path to the transformation of Africa “. The Representative, she continued, called each other to take action to end corruption on our continent. Mr Achille COMOÉ congratulated the various delegations and took the opportunity to give some advice related to the meetings. The Representations have been instructed to complete the formalities with the local institutions. The question of members training was once again addressed. Finally, the President invited the other sections to support the section of Mermoz which is to organize an activity on Saturday, June 2, 2018. The session was closed at 4:20 pm.

On May 25, 2018 PLANETE PAIX has been invited to the Carrefour-cocody Saint Jean bookstore by the Center for Education for a Sustainable Society (EDS) as part of a panel on the theme: “The perception of the population on Human Rights in Côte d’Ivoire “. Our Organization was represented by PLANÈTE PAIX-Mermoz. In fact, the activity began at 2:15 in the afternoon with the speeches of the administrator of the ESD center and that of the officials. In doing so, the panel focused on the following points: 1: the conditions of the detainees / accused / arbitrary arrests. 2: Right to security 3: Freedom of expression and demonstrate 4: Right to education 5: Health 6: Right to democratic participation. The panelists, after talking about these sub-themes, urged young people to learn more about human rights issues. Because it is in ignorance that arbitrariness derives its strength. This endangers the respect of our rights. Human rights are a matter of mentality, they invited us to wash our minds to combat arbitrariness as a guarantee of social renewal. The panel ended at 5:45 in the afternoon with a cocktail.