CRC/C/BEN/CO/2 Forty-third session Consideration of Reports Submitted by States Parties Under Article 44 of the Convention Concluding observations: Benin Birth registration 35. While noting the measures undertaken to implement the Committee’s previous recommendation, including the establishment of Registry Offices at […]
CRC/C/SEN/CO/2 Forty-third session Consideration of Reports Submitted by States Parties Under Article 44 of the Convention Concluding observations: Senegal Birth registration 30. The Committee welcomes the efforts made to promote birth registration, such as the Birth registration campaign and the […]
CRC/C/COG/CO/1 Birth registration and identity 33. While welcoming the law in which birth registration has become compulsory, the Committee expresses concern at the fact that a large number of children have still not been registered. The Committee is also concerned […]
Providing for registration of births and deaths in Zanzibar and repealing the former law. Download: Tanzania Zanzibar BDRA 2006
CRC/C/SWZ/CO/1 Forty-third session Consideration of Reports Submitted by States Parties Under Article 44 of the Convention Concluding observations: Swaziland Right to nationality 32. While noting that the Constitution addresses the right to identity, the Committee is nevertheless concerned that the […]
Conclusion No. 106 (LVII) – 2006, 56th session. Contained in United Nations General Assembly document A/AC.96/1035 Read on UNHCR website.
Not long ago, Libya opened its doors to foreigners. Eager for cheap labor, the Libyan government and its leader Mu`ammar al-Qadhafi welcomed Africans in the spirit of pan-African solidarity. Those days are gone. Around 2000, the government began fearing that […]
EU Countries Must Press Libya to Protect Migrants, Asylum Seekers, Refugees The Libyan government subjects migrants, asylum seekers and refugees to serious human rights abuses, including beatings, arbitrary arrests and forced return, Human Rights Watch said in a report released […]
By Stephen Jackson, African Studies Review, Volume 49, Number 2 (September 2006), pp. 95–123 Abstract: The recent wars in the DR Congo have led to a marked upsurge in both elite and popular discourse and violence around belonging and exclusion, […]
CEDAW/C/COD/CO/5 Extract: “31. While welcoming article 5 of the new legislation on nationality, which enables women to transmit Congolese nationality through filiation in the same way as men, the Committee regrets that article 30 provides that women cannot retain their […]
ABIDJAN, 11 August 2006 (IRIN) – A dispute this week over plans to hand out ID cards to millions of undocumented residents of war-divided Cote d’Ivoire threatens to further disrupt the country’s faltering peace process. With more than one out […]
The Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR) today expressed support for the proposal to remove religion from national identity (ID) cards. The proposal will be discussed tomorrow at a workshop organized by the National Council for Human Rights (NCHR). Although […]