Author Archives for Bronwen Manby

Equatorial Guinea: El nuevo Centro Nacional de Emisión de Documentos Oficiales garantizará la autenticidad de los mismos

March 13, 2010 3:48 pm Published by Comments Off on Equatorial Guinea: El nuevo Centro Nacional de Emisión de Documentos Oficiales garantizará la autenticidad de los mismos

La necesidad de asegurar la autenticidad de los documentos oficiales y acabar con determinadas falsificaciones y fraudes que se producen en Guinea Ecuatorial es una de las prioridades del Gobierno. Para conseguirlo, el Presidente Obiang Nguema Mbasogo ha sancionado esta […]


L’Afrique pour les droits des femmes: Cahier d’exigences

March 4, 2010 7:21 am Published by Comments Off on L’Afrique pour les droits des femmes: Cahier d’exigences

A l’occasion de la Journée internationale des femmes et du premier anniversaire de la campagne « L’Afrique pour les droits des femmes : ratifier et respecter ! », une centaine d’associations africaines publient leur « Cahier d’exigences », adressé aux […]


Passport lottery

March 4, 2010 12:00 am Published by Comments Off on Passport lottery

In our series of viewpoints from African journalists, Zimbabwean filmmaker and columnist Farai Sevenzo considers the implications of nationality as he flicks through his passport. You must have seen the queues around crumbling official buildings, or agonised over how to […]


Botswana: Official Explains Citizenship Application Process

March 1, 2010 10:58 pm Published by Comments Off on Botswana: Official Explains Citizenship Application Process

Many foreigners think that it is almost impossible to get Botswana citizenship regardless of how long one has stayed in the country. By Joyce Grey Some foreigners say that they have lived in Botswana and brought development and investment to […]


Who Belongs Where? Conflict, Displacement, Land and Identity in North Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo

March 1, 2010 2:07 pm Published by Comments Off on Who Belongs Where? Conflict, Displacement, Land and Identity in North Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo

Conflict in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) appears intractable. Since a peace agreement was signed in 2003, officially ending a decade of war in the country, an estimated two million civilians have died and millions of others have been […]


Official explains citizenship application process

March 1, 2010 12:00 am Published by Comments Off on Official explains citizenship application process

Many foreigners think that it is almost impossible to get Botswana citizenship regardless of how long one has stayed in the country. Some foreigners say that they have lived in Botswana and brought development and investment to the country but […]


South Africa: Report on an investigation into allegations of failure to register the birth of a child and the naturalisation of the mother by the Northern Cape Department of Home Affairs.

March 1, 2010 12:00 am Published by Comments Off on South Africa: Report on an investigation into allegations of failure to register the birth of a child and the naturalisation of the mother by the Northern Cape Department of Home Affairs.

Report No.38 of 2010/11 Download file: here At PP website: http://www.pprotect.org/?q=content/report-investigation-allegations-failure-register-birth-child-and-naturalisation-mother


Southern Sudan Referendum Act 2009

February 21, 2010 12:00 am Published by Comments Off on Southern Sudan Referendum Act 2009

Voter’s Eligibility 25. The voter shall meet the following conditions: 1) Born to parents both or one of them belonging to one of the indigenous communities that settled in Southern Sudan on or before the 1st of January 1956, or […]


CRC Concluding Observations: Cameroon, 2010

February 18, 2010 12:00 am Published by Comments Off on CRC Concluding Observations: Cameroon, 2010

CRC/C/CMR/CO/2 Fifty-third session, Consideration of Reports Submitted by States Parties under Article 44 of the Convention Concluding observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child: Cameroon Birth registration 33. The Committee notes the ongoing review process of birth registration […]


Morocco: Sahrawi Activists’ Passports Returned

February 16, 2010 12:00 am Published by Comments Off on Morocco: Sahrawi Activists’ Passports Returned

(Washington, DC) – Morocco’s return of confiscated passports this week to activists living in Western Sahara and the renewal of others is a positive step, Human Rights Watch said today. The government should ensure that no one is prevented from […]


Loi No 2010 – 023 du 11 février 2010 abrogeant et remplaçant certaines dispositions de la loi 61-112 du 12 juin 1961 portant Code de la nationalité mauritanienne

February 11, 2010 12:00 am Published by Comments Off on Loi No 2010 – 023 du 11 février 2010 abrogeant et remplaçant certaines dispositions de la loi 61-112 du 12 juin 1961 portant Code de la nationalité mauritanienne

Modifications principales (entr’autres): Article 9 supprimé (double droit de sol). Article 13 (nouveau): Peut opter pour la nationalité mauritanienne dans l’année précédant sa majorité l’enfant né à l’étranger d’une mère mauritanienne et d’un père de nationalité étrangère. Article 31 (nouveau): […]