The Code de l’enfant includes comprehensive provisions on nationality of children (arts. 17-24). Unlike the nationality code of 1978, these provisions create equal rights in most cases for men and women to transmit nationality to their children and spouse. The […]
[Presenter] In the first address he delivered after taking office, Mauritanian President Sidi Mohamed Ould Cheikh Abdellahi has spoken bitterly of what he called large-scale human rights violations committed in Mauritania in 1989, 1990 and 1991. Ould Cheikh Abdellahi vowed […]
Le nouveau Code de la famille marocain : Rapport établi par des magistrats français a l’issue d’un voyage d’étude (du 19 au 29 juin 2007) sur l’application de cette législation Télecharger: Le nouveau Code de la famille marocain
Lagos — From July 1, refugees hitherto sheltered in the comfort zone of the Oru camp will have to face the challenges of a new lifestyle either in Nigeria or in their home countries where peace and nomalcy have returned […]
Mission statement: We, the descendants of the migrant workers who came mainly from Malawi, Mozambique and Zambia; whose blood, sweat and taxes oiled the economic development of Zimbabwe; and who eventually became naturalised Zimbabweans due to old age, destitution, infirmity […]
Kenya High Court at Nairobi, Petition No.199 of 207 [2007] eKLR * Passport part of the right of Liberty and the right of movement under SS72(1) and 81(1) of the Constitution and its validity does not spring from any Executive […]
C’est un premier pas dans la résolution du dossier du retour des réfugiés mauritaniens expulsés de Mauritanie au cours de la vague de répression menée sous le pouvoir du président déchu Ould Taya contre la communauté noire du pays dans […]
Oke Epia The Federal Government has set June 30 as deadline for the winding up of the Oru Refugee camp and a return of the land to Ijebu North local government area of Ogun State. This was disclosed by Acting […]
Background Between 1981 and 1983, the Government of Zimbabwe allowed dual citizenship. In 1983, the Constitution of Zimbabwe Amendment Act 3 of 1983 abolished dual citizenship. Between 1983-2001, a series of amendments to the Citizenship Act were made in an […]
A group of Mauritanian exiles living in New York has come forward to accuse the former ruler of their country of “gross violations of human rights.” They are challenging their country’s justice system even as they charge the former ruler […]
FARAI CHIDEYA, host: On Africa’s northwestern coast sits Mauritania. It straddles the continent’s black African south and Arab north. From 1989 to 1991, the former French colony experienced ethnic cleansing similar to what’s happening now in Darfur, Sudan. The country’s Arab […]
CMW/C/EGY/CO/1 34.The Committee regrets that children born in Egypt of migrant workers, whether in regular or irregular situation, are not given a birth certificate by the Egyptian civil registry, in violation of article 29 of the Convention which provides that […]