The following study focuses on self-settled refugees who were once living in camps, but are presently self-settled and living in Koboko. Most of these refugees fled the settlements due to insecurity, others left in search of economic opportunities in town, yet […]
BOUAKE, 1 November 2005 (IRIN) – “We needed a war because we needed our identity cards,” explained rebel fighter Adama Traore, one of thousands of rebels who control the northern half of Cote d’Ivoire. “Without an identity card you are […]
Frederick Cooper, ‘The Politics of Citizenship in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa’, Studia Africana Vol.16 (2005): 14–23. “My goal in this article is to look at a crucial period in African history, the decade and a half after World War II […]
CRC/C/15/Add.269 Fortieth session Consideration of Reports Submitted by States Parties Under Article 44 of the Convention Concluding observations: Algeria Birth registration 35. The Committee emphasizes that the birth registration system should be equally accessible to all parents in the whole […]
Most of Batswana – especially women – place too much trust in foreigners and end up in marriages undergone to acquire Botswana citizenship. The Minister of Labour and Home Affairs, Major General Moeng Pheto, says there is a growing trend […]
Zimbabwe Country Report Presented to the Eastern and Southern Africa Conference on Universal Birth Registration “Improving Services to Protect the Rights of Children”, Mombasa, Kenya, 26 – 30 September 2005. Download: Zimbabwe_Country_Report_Birth_Reg_2005
Part III amends Articles 14-17 in Chapter III of the 1995 Constitution on citizenship, relating to dual citizenship and naturalisation; Part XVI, Art 48, amends schedule three of the constitution, to add ethnic groups to the list of those considered […]
Amends sections 22 and 23 of the constitution on freedom of movement and non-discrimination. Amendment of section 22 of Constitution Section 22 (“Protection of freedom of movement”) of the Constitution is amended: (a) in subsection (3)(a) by the deletion of […]
[Abrogée par la Loi n° 2016-09 du 14 mars 2016 instituant une carte d’identité biométrique CEDEAO] EXPOSE DES MOTIFS Le présent projet de loi a pour vocation d’abroger les dispositions de la dernière loi sur la carte nationale d’identité qui sont […]
Ijeoma Nwachukwu, “The Challenge of Local Citizenship for Human Rights in Nigeria”, African Journal of International and Comparative Law, September 2005 Volume 13, Issue 2, Page 235-261 Access to “citizenship” – the guarantee of rights between an individual and a […]
Perception and Practice in Addis Ababa and the Regional States of Oromia, Amhara and SNNPR, Ethiopia Given that Ethiopia is one of the few countries in the world with no birth registration system, the births of around 2.9 million children […]
Provides procedures for acquisition of Rwandan nationality by naturalisation, marriage or declaration, according to Organic Law No. 29/2004 of 3 December 2004. Download file here.