Author Archives for Bronwen Manby

A responsibility to protect: UNHCR and statelessness in Egypt

January 1, 2013 9:26 am Published by Comments Off on A responsibility to protect: UNHCR and statelessness in Egypt

By Eirwen-Jane Pierrot To date there has been no comprehensive research on instances of statelessness in Egypt, which has negatively impacted how government, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), and other organisations have been able to deal with […]


Ethnic Federalism and Internal Minorities: The Legal Protection of Internal Minorities in Ethiopia

January 1, 2013 8:55 am Published by Comments Off on Ethnic Federalism and Internal Minorities: The Legal Protection of Internal Minorities in Ethiopia

By Yonatan Tesfaye Fessha and Christophe van der Beken African Journal of International and Comparative Law 21.1 (2013): 32–49 Not a single federal arrangement has been successful in demarcating the territorial matrix of the federation into separate ethnically defined territorial […]


Zambia begins granting Angolan refugees permanent residency

December 31, 2012 10:16 am Published by Comments Off on Zambia begins granting Angolan refugees permanent residency

By Mohammed Abu Asaker, ed. Leo Dobbs LUSAKA, Zambia, 31 December – Jose Pinto, a refugee for 33 years, can now call Zambia his permanent home after he and his family became the first former Angolan refugees to be granted permanent […]


South Sudan accuses Sudan of “rounding up” its nationals in Darfur

December 30, 2012 12:00 am Published by Comments Off on South Sudan accuses Sudan of “rounding up” its nationals in Darfur

South Sudan accused the Sudanese government Monday of “rounding up” its nationals living in the troubled western region of Darfur, which shares a direct border with the South’s Western and Northern Bahr el Ghazal State. Juba made the allegation in […]


Naturalisation : Pas facile de devenir Mauritanien

December 23, 2012 9:17 am Published by Comments Off on Naturalisation : Pas facile de devenir Mauritanien

Par Sneiba Mohamed Nous faisons toujours du tort aux autres, nous ne faisons pas attention aux nombreux domaines où la critique portée sur eux est également valable pour nous. Cette remarque s’est imposée à moi, quand, au détour d’une question […]


Guidelines on statelessness No. 4: Ensuring every child’s right to acquire a nationality

December 21, 2012 12:00 am Published by Comments Off on Guidelines on statelessness No. 4: Ensuring every child’s right to acquire a nationality

UNHCR issues these Guidelines pursuant to its mandate responsibilities to address statelessness. These responsibilities were initially limited to stateless persons who were refugees as set out in paragraph 6 (A) (II) of the UNHCR Statute and Article 1 (A) (2) […]


CRC Concluding Observations: Liberia, 2012

December 13, 2012 8:11 pm Published by Comments Off on CRC Concluding Observations: Liberia, 2012

CRC/C/LBR/CO/2-4 Concluding observations on the combined second to fourth periodic reports of Liberia, adopted by the Committee at its sixty-first session (17 September-5 October 2012) Name and nationality 41. The Committee regrets that, despite its previous recommendation, the granting of […]


Will Oman welcome home its stateless people in Burundi?

December 4, 2012 6:40 pm Published by Comments Off on Will Oman welcome home its stateless people in Burundi?

RUMONGE, Burundi (AFP) It was about a century ago when Sultan Salum’s ancestors left Oman for the east African spice island of Zanzibar, before setting off westward into the interior for Burundi. But while the exact date of his forebears’s […]