July 15, 2016 12:27 pm
Published by Bronwen Manby
Paragraph 5 of the Decision: The Executive Council […] 5. WELCOMES the development by the ACHPR of the draft Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in Africa, the draft […]
July 15, 2016 4:57 am
Published by Bronwen Manby
Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Geoffrey Onyeama, has said that the soon-to-be-launched AU passport may not achieve the desired result if it does not have legal framework to support it. He said this in an interview with the News agency […]
July 14, 2016 2:50 pm
Published by Bronwen Manby
Recent Global statistics shows that 230 million under the age of 5 have not been registered, and of these, 85 million are in Sub-Saharan Africa and 135 million in Asia, while 10 million are in the rest of the World. […]
July 13, 2016 6:11 pm
Published by Bronwen Manby
By Mashudu Netsianda THE South African government has denied that it deported Mr Daniel Desire Mncube to Zimbabwe. Mr Mncube (46) claims he was flushed out of South Africa for allegedly violating the neighbouring country’s immigration laws. He found himself […]
July 12, 2016 4:41 pm
Published by Bronwen Manby
By Owen Khamula President Peter Mutharika has said he has ordered his Justice minister Samuel Tembenu to draft a dual citizenship legislation to allow Malawians stuck in diaspora come back home and invest. Mutharika told the state controlled Malawi Broadcasting […]
July 12, 2016 11:10 am
Published by Bronwen Manby
Members of Parliament on Thursday unanimously passed in to law the National Civil Registration Act, 2016 that called for the compulsory registration of citizens and non-citizens resident in Sierra Leone as well as provide the registrants with multipurpose E-cards. According […]
July 11, 2016 4:20 pm
Published by Bronwen Manby
Action 6 of the Global Action Plan calls on States to grant protection status to stateless migrants through the establishment of statelessness determination procedures, and facilitate their naturalization. A statelessness determination procedure serves to identify stateless persons among migrant populations […]
July 11, 2016 3:29 pm
Published by Bronwen Manby
Citizenship Studies; Volume 20, 2016 – Issue 6-7 By Robtel Neajai Pailey As a twenty-first century post-war, emigrant-sending country, Liberia reflects global citizenship norms while simultaneously departing from them, and this unique positioning offers new opportunities to theorise citizenship across […]
July 11, 2016 3:18 pm
Published by Bronwen Manby
Nigeria’s birth registration is dismal, with only nine of its 36 states, including the federal capital territory, recording up to 50 per cent of their births, a 2016 infographics by AFRI-DEV info has shown. Of all 36 states, Zamfara has the […]
July 11, 2016 11:08 am
Published by Bronwen Manby
Ethnic Lebanese people born in Sierra Leone are not eligible to be citizens of the country by birth. This is because the 1991 Sierra Leone Constitution and the Citizenship Act says that Sierra Leoneans born in the country who are […]
July 10, 2016 12:59 pm
Published by Bronwen Manby
Executive Council 29th Ordinary Session 10 – 15 July 2016 Kigali, Rwanda, Doc EX.CL/968(XXIX) XIV. RECOMMENDATIONS […] To the AUC: i) Process the drafts instruments (the Draft Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights […]
July 10, 2016 12:43 pm
Published by Bronwen Manby
AU Executive Council 29th Ordinary Session, 10 – 18 July 2016, Kigali, Rwanda, Document EX.CL/978(XXIX) Including: Informal Consultative Session with the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Draft Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ […]
