Establishes the National Identity Management Commission and its powers to create a national identity database, register registrable persons, and issue identity cards. Download: Nigeria_NIMC_Act_2007
Introductory Remarks by Mrs. Julia Dolly Joiner, Commissioner for Political Affairs African Union Commission on the Launching of the African Union Diplomatic and Service Passports at the Celebration of Africa Day 25 May 2007 Download file: Introductory Remarks by Julia […]
Ahmadou Sadio Diallo (Republic of Guinea v. Democratic Republic of the Congo) Preliminary Objections Summary of the Judgment of 24 May 2007 Download file: Judgement in the Case Concerning Ahmadou Sadio Diallo (PDF)
Council of ministers decree providing that birth registration shall be free. Download file: here
Editors: Paul Nugent, Daniel Hammett, and Sara Dorman Who belongs to the nation? How is citizenship defined? And why have such identities become so politically explosive in recent years? This book explores the instrumental manipulation of citizenship and narrowing definitions […]
CRC/C/MLI/CO/2 Forty-fourth session Concluding observations: Mali Nationality 35. The Committee is concerned that current provisions prevent children from deriving nationality from their mothers. 36. As a matter of non-discrimination and in the best interests of the child, the Committee recommends […]
By Oliver Bakewell Abstract: Migration policies inevitably rest on bureaucratic responses concerned with the use of identity papers, visas, passports and other forms of paperwork. In research looking at movement between North-West Zambia and Angola, in Zambia, a very striking […]
This note provides instructions on the use of the registers of birth documentation provided by UNICEF. Instructions sur l’utilisation des registres d’actes de naissances fournis par l’UNICEF. Télécharger: Acte de Naissance
(HC 7758/06) [2007] ZWHHC 25 MAKARAU JP: The facts of this matter are not in dispute. I set them out. The applicant entered Zimbabwe in 1980. At the time he declared he was born in Arusha, Tanzania. In 1982 he […]
By Francis Tim Mbom Nigerians born and bred in Cameroon have requested that the Cameroon Government to relax its laws on nationality so that they can naturally, too, have the right of Cameroonian citizenship. The law on Cameroonian citizenship is […]
By JOHN THORNE RABAT, Morocco (AP) – Morocco is willing to negotiate details of its proposed autonomy plan for Western Sahara with the independence-seeking Polisario Front, Morocco’s Interior Minister said Friday. Morocco has resisted past offers by Polisario to engage […]
Kevin Ngang, “Understanding the Bakassi Conflict: A Showcase of Conflict Prevention in Practice”, EPU Research Papers Issue 04/07 This paper seeks to analyze one of the conflicts in Africa which could have escalated into a major interstate war, had it […]