Author Archives for Bronwen Manby

Cote d’Ivoire: More violence surrounding identification program

July 26, 2006 12:00 am Published by Comments Off on Cote d’Ivoire: More violence surrounding identification program

ABIDJAN, 26 July 2006 (IRIN) – A programme of identification of Ivorian nationals, a key element to restoring peace in Cote d’Ivoire, has again sparked violence that left one dead in a tourist resort on the outskirts of the main […]


Cote d’Ivoire: Pro-Gbagbo youths threaten key pre-election ID handout

July 17, 2006 12:00 am Published by Comments Off on Cote d’Ivoire: Pro-Gbagbo youths threaten key pre-election ID handout

ABIDJAN, 17 July 2006 (IRIN) – Youths loyal to President Laurent Gbagbo threw up barricades and burned tires in a crowded, poor suburb of Cote d’Ivoire’s largest city on Monday as a crucial effort to identify some 3.5 million undocumented […]


Cote d’Ivoire Delay in key bid to hand out ID papers

July 14, 2006 12:00 am Published by Comments Off on Cote d’Ivoire Delay in key bid to hand out ID papers

ABIDJAN, 14 July 2006 (IRIN) – President Laurent Gbagbo’s party is threatening a politically sensitive registration scheme to determine who has the right to Ivorian citizenship – an issue that helped spark the almost four-year-old civil war that has divided […]


Arrêté ministériel n° 261/CAB/MIN/J/2006 du 04 juillet 2006 portant certaines mesures d’exécution de la Loi n° 04/024 du 12 novembre 2004 relative à la nationalité congolaise

July 4, 2006 3:41 pm Published by Comments Off on Arrêté ministériel n° 261/CAB/MIN/J/2006 du 04 juillet 2006 portant certaines mesures d’exécution de la Loi n° 04/024 du 12 novembre 2004 relative à la nationalité congolaise

Les documents à produire à l’appui d’une demande d’acquisition de la nationalité congolaise. Télécharger: Arrêté ministériel no.261 du 04 juillet 2006


‘We want to be citizens not charities’ say refugees

June 27, 2006 12:00 am Published by Comments Off on ‘We want to be citizens not charities’ say refugees

Whenever we see a picture of a refugee it is always someone lying on the ground with flies on their face!” exclaims Dosso Ndessomin. Ndessomin (42) is tired of the portrayal of refugees as passive victims, with endless needs and […]


Rwanda: Understanding Rwandan Nationality

June 26, 2006 2:01 pm Published by Comments Off on Rwanda: Understanding Rwandan Nationality

By Godfrey Kamukunde Kigali — Nationality law establishes the relationship between an individual and one or several states. In the Rwandan context, a Rwandan is anyone who holds the Rwandan nationality under the provisions of the organic law on Rwandan […]


CRC Concluding Observations: Tanzania, 2006

June 21, 2006 12:00 am Published by Comments Off on CRC Concluding Observations: Tanzania, 2006

CRC/C/TZA/CO/2 Forty-second session Consideration of Reports Submitted by States Parties Under Article 44 of the Convention Concluding observations: United Republic of Tanzania Birth registration 31. While welcoming the measures taken by the State party in this respect, including the introduction […]


Refugees and Asylum seekers from mixed Eritrean-Ethiopian families in Cairo

June 1, 2006 12:00 am Published by Comments Off on Refugees and Asylum seekers from mixed Eritrean-Ethiopian families in Cairo

Louise Thomas, Refugees and Asylum Seekers from Mixed Eritrean-Ethiopian Families in Cairo, Centre for Forced Migration and Refugee Studies, American University in Cairo, 2006. People from mixed EritreanEthiopian families have been caught on the ‘front line’ of hostile relations between Eritrea […]


Uganda: Critique of the Refugees Act (2006)

June 1, 2006 12:00 am Published by Comments Off on Uganda: Critique of the Refugees Act (2006)

“The Refugees Act has been commenced and is in force with the exception of certain parts that require additional institutional and structural establishments under the Act beyond the existing structures. Overall, the Refugees Act reflects international legal standards of refugee […]