By: WERNER MENGES NAMIBIAN citizens by birth can hold dual citizenship. This is the effect of an order that was given in the High Court in Windhoek yesterday. The Namibian Citizenship Act’s section 26, which states that no Namibian citizen […]
Le Roux v The Minister of Home Affairs and Immigration and Others (A 322/2010) [2011] NAHC 159 (6 June 2011) High Court judgment in case ordering that a person who is a Namibian citizen by birth may acquire another citizenship […]
Case number 44424/09. The High Court ordered the Dept of Home Affairs to register the birth and South African citizenship of the child of an asylum-seeker mother and a South African father. Download file: here
Extract p.23: “Frustration also has been growing among the Tebu, many of whom have resided in the country for years and consider themselves fully Libyan yet are not treated accordingly. In December 2007, for example, in a bid to deter […]
Includes the main provisions on acquisition of citizenship. Download file: Seychelles Constitution 1993 amended to 2011
By Delphine Perrin, EUI Working Paper RSCAS 2011/40 Abstract: For ten years, Maghreb countries have experienced unprecedented legislative developments, particularly in migration and citizenship law. The concomitance of reforms in both these fields – matching a parallel phenomenon in Europe […]
The long awaited registration exercise has begun in earnest. The old voter’s cards are now invalid. If one does not get a new voter’s card one will not be able to vote in the next presidential and National Assembly elections […]
Samantha Balaton-Chrimes, “Counting as Citizens: Recognition of the Nubians in the 2009 Kenyan census”, Ethnopolitics 2011, Vol.10, No.2, pp 205-218. Abstract: This article uses the case of the Nubians in Kenya as an ethnic minority, and the 2009 Kenyan census […]
After tireless efforts, women’s rights activists have reached another milestone with Egyptian women married to Palestinian men gaining the right to pass their nationality to their children. WLP is pleased to share the following statement on behalf of the Arab […]
May 9, 2011 (KHARTOUM) – Sudan is set to launch a high-tech civil registry project on 16 May, targeting vital events of 16 million of the country’s population as well as foreign residents In a report presented to the council […]
By Nasredeen Abdulbari The proper birth of any sovereign nation starts with the adoption of a set of fundamental principles according to which it would be governed. In this context, the draft of the Transitional Constitutional of the Republic of […]
Move marks victory for human and women’s rights, but deals possible blow to national identity. Egypt’s decision to grant citizenship to the children of Palestinians married to Egyptian women is being hailed as a victory for women’s rights in Cairo […]