Author Archives for Bronwen Manby

CEDAW Concluding Observations: Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, 2009

February 6, 2009 8:25 am Published by Comments Off on CEDAW Concluding Observations: Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, 2009

CEDAW/C/LBY/CO/5 Extract: Discriminatory laws While welcoming the pledge by the State party’s delegation that Law No. 18 of 1980 on the provisions of the nationality law will be amended in order to comply with article 9 of the Convention, the […]


CEDAW: Responses to the list of issues and questions with regard to the consideration of the 2nd Periodic Report: Libyan Arab Jamahiriya

January 9, 2009 4:13 pm Published by Comments Off on CEDAW: Responses to the list of issues and questions with regard to the consideration of the 2nd Periodic Report: Libyan Arab Jamahiriya

CEDAW/C/LBY/Q/2/Add.1 Extract: Nationality 14. Please provide information on steps taken by the Higher Committee regarding the adoption of a rule that would allow a Libyan mother to transfer her nationality to her child. Please also indicate whether the current legislation […]


Documents in Somalia and Sudan

January 5, 2009 6:03 pm Published by Comments Off on Documents in Somalia and Sudan

Summary This report gives an overview of various personal documents issued in Sudan and Somalia, including ID cards, national identity documents, passports, birth certificates and marriage certificates. While Sudanese authorities have established relatively good registration procedures, the situation in Somalia […]


Watch the Courts Dance: Litigating the Right to Non-discrimination on the Ground of Sex

January 1, 2009 1:15 pm Published by Comments Off on Watch the Courts Dance: Litigating the Right to Non-discrimination on the Ground of Sex

By Sibongile Ndashe and Solomon Sacco Introduction Litigating the right to non-discrimination on the ground of sex has produced mixed results in a number of African  jurisdictions. In spite of the fact that courts have looked at laws that discriminate […]


For better implementation of migrant children’s rights in South Africa

January 1, 2009 12:00 am Published by Comments Off on For better implementation of migrant children’s rights in South Africa

By Ingrid Palmary This report outlines the situation facing children who migrate across international borders to South Africa. The report begins by outlining the policy framework that should guide migrant children’s access to rights in South Africa. This section points […]


Mali-Mauritania: Emersion in the Karakoro Basin

January 1, 2009 12:00 am Published by Comments Off on Mali-Mauritania: Emersion in the Karakoro Basin

CROSS-BORDER DIARIES, Issue 10 This issue focuses on the Karakoro basin, situated in the pre-Sahelian zone between Mali and Mauritania. Local border populations and their respective governors are demonstrating a strong commitment to border development. Farming, sedentary and transhumant livestock […]


Loi relative à la citoyenneté économique en Union des Comores, 2008

December 3, 2008 12:00 am Published by Comments Off on Loi relative à la citoyenneté économique en Union des Comores, 2008

Art 1: “L’acquisition de la citoyenneté économique par décision de l’autorité publique résulte d’une décision accordée à la demande d’une personne majeure ayant la qualité de partenaire économique du Gouvernement des Comores” Télécharger (Al Watwan, p.2): Loi relative à la […]


A Right or a Privilege: Access to Identity and Citizenship in Zimbabwe

December 1, 2008 1:21 pm Published by Comments Off on A Right or a Privilege: Access to Identity and Citizenship in Zimbabwe

By Rumbidzai Dube Identity documents are tags reflective of an individual’s history and heritage. Without identity documents individuals fall into a bureaucratic limbo as procedures for telling who they are, where they are from, and to whom they are connected […]


The Invisible Refugee Camp: Durable Solutions for Boreah ‘Residuals’ in Guinea

December 1, 2008 11:41 am Published by Comments Off on The Invisible Refugee Camp: Durable Solutions for Boreah ‘Residuals’ in Guinea

Lacy Andrews Gale Journal of Refugee Studies Vol. 21, No. 4 [2008]. doi:10.1093/jrs/fen040 What happens when refugees do not repatriate post-conflict? For those who remain in refugee camps, the remaining, durable solutions of resettlement and local integration may be neither […]


Human Rights in Western Sahara and in the Tindouf Refugee Camps

December 1, 2008 12:00 am Published by Comments Off on Human Rights in Western Sahara and in the Tindouf Refugee Camps

This report is in two parts. Part one examines present-day human rights conditions in Western Sahara. Part two examines present-day human rights conditions in the Sahrawi refugee camps administered by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Saguia el-Hamra and […]


Constitution of Zimbabwe Amendment No.19 Bill

November 27, 2008 12:00 am Published by Comments Off on Constitution of Zimbabwe Amendment No.19 Bill

3rd draft of the proposed new text for the constitutional amendments to form a government of national unity (not the version finally adopted).. Download file: here