Author Archives for Bronwen Manby

Guinea Bissau: Lei No. 6/2008 de 2008, aprovado o Estatuto do Refugiado

May 27, 2008 8:54 am Published by Comments Off on Guinea Bissau: Lei No. 6/2008 de 2008, aprovado o Estatuto do Refugiado

ARTIGO 34 Naturalização 1. Por derrogação do artigo 9, no 1, alinea c) da lei no. 2/92, de 6 de Abril, de relativa às condiçoes de atribuiçoes e perda da Nacionalidade Bissau-Guineense, as autoridades da Guiné-Bissau facilitarao a naturalização do […]


Kenya: National Registration Process Leaves Minorities on the Edge of Statelessness

May 23, 2008 12:00 am Published by Comments Off on Kenya: National Registration Process Leaves Minorities on the Edge of Statelessness

The ethnic divides that Kenya’s election crisis brought to light over- shadow another longstanding form of marginalization: obstacles to citizenship faced by minority groups such as the Nubians, Kenyan Somalis, and coastal Arabs in the national identification (ID) card reg- […]


ACHPR Communication 262/02 : Mouvement ivoirien de droits de l’Homme (MIDH) / Cote d’Ivoire

May 22, 2008 8:52 am Published by Comments Off on ACHPR Communication 262/02 : Mouvement ivoirien de droits de l’Homme (MIDH) / Cote d’Ivoire

1.On the 24th October 2002, the Secretariat of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights received from Mr Zoro Bi Ballo Epiphane, President of the Ivorian Human Rights Movement (MIDH), a communication presented on behalf of this NGO, in […]


ACHPR Comm 292/04 : Institute for Human Rights and Development in Africa / Angola

May 22, 2008 12:00 am Published by Comments Off on ACHPR Comm 292/04 : Institute for Human Rights and Development in Africa / Angola

African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, Communication 292/04 IHRDA (on behalf of Esmaila Connateh & 13 others) / Republic of Angola [24th AAR] 1.The complaint is filed by the Institute for Human Rights and Development in Africa (IHRDA) on […]


Mozambique: “Vamos lá falar!” – Editorial do Zambeze

May 8, 2008 9:20 am Published by Comments Off on Mozambique: “Vamos lá falar!” – Editorial do Zambeze

Qual é afinal a jurisprudência sobre a nacionalidade moçambicana? A semana que decorreu entre a nossa última edição e esta, foi rica em episódios. Nada melhor para quem gosta mesmo de jornalismo. E nada melhor do que isso acontecer em […]


Mozambique: Spurious Claims About Prime Minister’s Nationality

May 8, 2008 12:00 am Published by Comments Off on Mozambique: Spurious Claims About Prime Minister’s Nationality

By Paul Fauvet Maputo — Wednesday and Thursday saw the Mozambican government submitted to questioning in the country’s parliament, the Assembly of the Republic – but some of the opposition deputies, rather than asking relevant questions about the government’s compliance […]


Mozambique: Nacionalidade da PM: CP da Frelimo dissipa dúvidas

May 3, 2008 8:48 am Published by Comments Off on Mozambique: Nacionalidade da PM: CP da Frelimo dissipa dúvidas

Um comunicado da Comissão Política do Partido Frelimo chegado ontem à nossa Redacção refere que a Primeira-Ministra, Luísa Diogo é moçambicana e nunca perdeu a nacionalidade contrariamente às informações veiculadas por uma certa Imprensa. A Comissão Política reunida ontem na […]


Lesotho: Director of Immigration and others v. Lekhoaba

April 11, 2008 4:14 pm Published by Comments Off on Lesotho: Director of Immigration and others v. Lekhoaba

C of A (CIV) No. 22/07 Summary: (a) Dual citizenship – Failure to renounce South African citizenship – Section 41 of the Constitution of Lesotho -Sections 22 and 23 of the Citizenship Order 1971 -Whether the first respondent ceased to […]


CEDAW Concluding Observations: Morocco, 2008

April 8, 2008 6:28 pm Published by Comments Off on CEDAW Concluding Observations: Morocco, 2008

CEDAW/C/MAR/CO/4 Extract: 40. While noting with satisfaction the improvement in the personal status of women in the State party, including the fact that that every child born to a Moroccan mother, whether in Morocco or abroad, is entitled to acquire […]