November 20, 2014 12:00 am
Published by Bronwen Manby
On 5 November 2014, the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women issued General Recommendation No. 32 on the gender-related dimensions of refugee status, asylum, nationality and statelessness of women. The Recommendation highlights the significant impact of gender discrimination […]
November 20, 2014 12:00 am
Published by Bronwen Manby
Home Affairs Minister Malusi Gigaba says he is happy with the progress that the department has made in processing Zimbabwean Special Dispensation Permits across the country. The Minister visited a Visa Facilitation Centre in Cape Town on Thursday morning to […]
November 19, 2014 12:00 am
Published by Bronwen Manby
Philippe Le Claire pour Imaz Press Réunion Au-delà du réel problème humanitaire qui fait du bras de mer entre Anjouan et Mayotte un vaste cimetière marin, se posent de sérieux défis en termes de sécurité du territoire. Les frontières comoriennes […]
November 17, 2014 9:02 am
Published by Bronwen Manby
Telecharger: Mali Comite Interministeriel apatridie Nov2014
November 17, 2014 12:00 am
Published by Bronwen Manby
By Liesl Louw-Vaudran, ISS Consultant The nationality and parentage of heads of state is a sensitive issue all over the world, and especially in Africa. For years, those in power in Côte d’Ivoire, for example, maintained that President Alassane Ouattara […]
November 15, 2014 12:00 am
Published by Bronwen Manby
The law amends the nationality code to remove restrictions on dual nationality and end discrimination in transmission of nationality between spouses. The law, however, creates conditions for the acquisition of nationality by marriage that did not previously exist. Women naturalizing […]
November 14, 2014 7:32 pm
Published by Bronwen Manby
CEDAW/C/GIN/CO/7-8 Concluding observations on the combined seventh and eighth periodic reports of Guinea Nationality 40. The Committee notes with concern that certain provisions of the Civil Code continue to contradict article 9 of the Convention and discriminate against Guinean women, […]
November 13, 2014 12:00 am
Published by Bronwen Manby
By Bronwen Manby Contribution to collection of essays “The Return of Banishment: Do the New Denationalisation Policies Weaken Citizenship?” published by the European Union Democracy Observatory on Citizenship (now renamed GlobalCit); the paper was also collected with others in the […]
November 12, 2014 5:56 pm
Published by Bronwen Manby
By Beldina Nyakeke,The Citizen Correspondent Musoma. Parents of the man at the centre of a nationality dispute have been told to lodge an appeal with the Butiama district authorities for the matter to be heard. The parents are querying a […]
November 11, 2014 12:00 am
Published by Bronwen Manby
Kuwait’s announcement that tens of thousands of stateless people will be offered citizenship of the impoverished African nation of Comoros has highlighted their decades-old plight. But a representative of the community whose members demand Kuwaiti citizenship rejected the Gulf Arab […]
November 11, 2014 12:00 am
Published by Bronwen Manby
Minutes of Meeting of Parliamentary Committee on Home Affairs, 11 November 2014 The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) gave a presentation outlining their function and work in South Africa, including their mandate, the people included under their jurisdiction […]
November 10, 2014 12:00 am
Published by Bronwen Manby
Tens of thousands of stateless people in Kuwait – known as Bidun – could be offered citizenship of the Comoros islands off Africa, an official says. The senior interior ministry official told a local newspaper that the Bidun would be […]
