CRC/C/15/Add.255 Thirty-eighth session Consideration of Reports Submitted by States Parties under Article 44 of the Convention Concluding observations: Togo Birth registration and right to nationality 34. The Committee is concerned that mothers cannot pass their nationality to their children, and […]
Article 12: La qualité de Burundais s’acquiert, se conserve et se perd selon les conditions déterminées par la loi. Les enfants nés des hommes ou des femmes burundais ont les mêmes droits au regard de la loi sur la nationalité. […]
When the Angolan army and UNITA rebel forces signed the Luena Memorandum of Understanding (“MOU”) on April 4, 2002, they brought an end to one of the most protracted and brutal wars of the twentieth century, a Cold War proxy […]
Ordonnance n° 70-86 du 15 décembre 1970 portant code de la nationalité algérienne modifié par l’ordonnance n° 05-01 du 27 février 2005 De la nationalité d’origine Art. 6. (Modifié) -Est considéré comme Algérien l’enfant né de père algérien ou de […]
Ordonnance n° 05-01 du 18 Moharram 1426 correspondant au 27 février 2005 modifiant et complétant l’ordonnance n° 70-86 du 15 décembre 1970 portant code de la nationalité algérienne Removes gender discrimination / supprime la discrimination fondée sur le sexe. Télécharger: Algerie […]
Section 7.5 (pp.80-83) considers citizenship. Download file: Final eport of the Constitution of Kenya Review Commission 2005
Par Souhayma Ben Achour. Présentation à l’occasion d’un colloque international “L’étranger dans tous ses états”, organisé par la Faculté de Droit et de Sciences Politiques de Tunis les 3, 4 et 5 février 2005. Télécharger: L’Etranger et la nationalité tunisienne
The principle of non-discrimination is well established all over the world. It is to be found in most international conventions as well as in many countries municipal laws. Kenya is no exception and the principle is found in Kenya’s constitution […]
By M. Lynch Every person has the right to a nationality. Yet statelessness continues to be a fundamental cause of discrimination, exploitation, and forced displacement in all regions of the world. Statelessness is a highly complex legal and often political […]
Peter Geschiere, “Autochthony and Citizenship: New Modes in the Struggle over Belonging and Exclusion in Africa” Forum for Development Studies, Volume 32, Issue 2, 2005, pages 371-384 Abtract: In many parts of Africa ‘autochthony’ and similar localist slogans have acquired […]
THE Registrar-General’s Office has invited people made “stateless” by the Citizenship Amendment Act number 12 of 2003 to come forward and regularise their citizenship status. Failure by the affected people to regularise their citizenship would result in them failing to […]
Oroub El-Abed, “Palestinian Refugees of Egypt: What Exit Options Are Left for Them?” Refuge Vol.22, No.2, 2005 Abstract: This paper, based on personal interviews, analysis of Egyptian administrative regulations, and observation of practice of international and regional agreements on refugees, […]