Following the entry into force in June 2008 of the Pact on Security, Stability and Development in Africa’s Great Lakes region (the Great Lakes Pact), the Norwegian Refugee Council’s Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) and the International Refugee Rights Initiative […]
By Charles Gasarasi, in Journal of African Conflicts and Peace Studies, Volume 1, Issue 1, Peace and Conflict Trends in Africa: The Great Lakes Region Abstract: From 2000 to 2006, more than 33 000 Rwandan immigrants were expelled from Tanzania. […]
By Erika Conti, in African Journal of International and Comparative Law Volume 16, Issue 2, Page 178-196 Abstract Since the advisory opinion delivered by the International Court of Justice in 1975, the difference between the legal and the political means […]
By Hanibal Goitom (Aug. 28, 2008) On August 17, 2008, the Ugandan Citizenship and Immigration Control (Amendment) Bill of 2008 was introduced on the floor of the Ugandan Parliament. The bill will give effect to the Constitution (Amendment) Act (No. […]
Titre I: Etablissement du lien de filiation et identification de l’enfant Guinée Code de l’enfant
Adopted in 2008, entry into force February 2013, in accordance with Article 41. Generally provides for legal equality of men and women, including in relation to rights over children. Article 8(5) specifies that men and women shall have equal rights […]
Zanzibar’s Immigration Department has revoked the citizenship of the consultant editor of Fahamu newspaper, Ali Mohammed Nabwa. The revocation comes just days after the Minister for Home Affairs, Capt John Chiligati, restored the editor’s citizenship that was withdrawn after the […]
By Jeff Crisp, José Riera, and Raquel Freitas Para 72: “In the evaluation team’s interviews with returnees, the most frequently cited obstacle to sustainable reintegration was the lack of an Angolan national identity card (‘Bilhete de Identidade’), for which the […]
Download scan: Kenyans divided on citizenship for refugees
Repeals and replaces the organic law of 2004; itself repealed and replaced by the organic law of 2021. TITLE II: RWANDAN NATIONALITY BY PARENTAL DESCENT Article 6: Rwandan parental descent Shall be Rwandan any person whose one of the parents […]
A/63/161 Summary: The Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief submits the present report to the General Assembly pursuant to its resolution 62/157. In the report, she gives an overview of the activities carried out under the mandate since […]
Decision in complaint against Cote d’Ivoire for discrimination in relation to political rights in which the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights finds that the Respondent State is in violation of Articles 1, 2, 3(2), 7 and 13 of […]