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A sense of déjà vu with Rastetter’s Iowa Ag Summit

Published: 7/Mar/2015
Source: Oakland Institute

By: Anuradha Mittal Is the 2015 “Iowa Agriculture Summit” really a bi-partisan forum to promote agriculture, or yet another scheme devised by multi-millionaire Iowan Bruce Rastetter to hijack issues impacting farmers and agriculture for his self-serving political and economic agenda? […]

ECOWAS protocol on citizenship outdated – Monteiro

Published: 4/Mar/2015
Source: Ghana Business News

The President of the ECOWAS Community Court of Justice, Justice Maria Do Céu Silva Monteiro, has described the 1982 regional Protocol defining community citizenship in ECOWAS as ‘outdated’. She has thus called for its revision, which should be in line […]

Sudan issues ID cards to tens of thousands of South Sudanese

Published: 3/Mar/2015
Source: UNHCR

More than 54,000 South Sudanese have been registered and some 37,000 identity cards produced since the programme began at the start of February By: Karin de Gruijl KHARTOUM, Sudan, March 3 (UNHCR) – The Sudan government has begun to register South […]

CRC Concluding Observations: Tanzania, 2015

Published: 3/Mar/2015
Source: UN Committee on the Rights of the Child

CRC/C/TZA/CO/3-5 Concluding observations on the combined third to fifth periodic reports of the United Republic of Tanzania Birth registration The Committee notes with appreciation the measures taken by the State party to increase birth registration, including the Under-Five National Birth […]

Stand against dual citizenship

Published: 3/Mar/2015
Source: The News (Monrovia)

The Pastor of New Water in the Desert Assembly (NWIDA), the headquarters congregation of the Apostolic Pentecostal Church (APC) has called on Liberians to stand against dual citizenship. He believes that if dual citizenship is rejected it would avoid recreating […]

Uganda: 2016 ‘Ghost Voters’

Published: 1/Mar/2015
Source: The Independent (Kampala)

Something unusual happened in parliament on November 25, 2014. The Minister of Internal Affairs, Gen. Aronda Nyakairima and his deputy, James Baba, and the Permanent Secretary, Stephen Kagoda, were appearing before the Committee on Defence and Internal Affairs to give […]

ACHPR Comm. 317/06: The Nubian Community in Kenya / Republic of Kenya

Published: 28/Feb/2015
Source: African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights

Decision adopted at the 17th Extraordinary Session of the Commission, 19 – 28 February 2015. Banjul, Gambia. Published on 30 May 2016. The Commission held, inter alia, that: “By failing to take measures to prevent members of the Nubian Community […]

ACmHPR Comm 318/06: Open Society Justice Initiative / Cote d’Ivoire

Published: 28/Feb/2015
Source: African Commission on Human and People's Rights

Decision of the African Commission in a case alleging discrimination against “Dioula” in Cote d’Ivoire on the basis of nationality and other grounds, and finding Cote d’Ivoire in violation of Articles 1, 2, 3, 5, 12, 13, 14, 15, 18 […]

Cidadãos da CPLP em São Tomé e Príncipe podem obter nacionalidade

Published: 27/Feb/2015
Source: RFI

O governo são-tomense  vai conceder a nacionalidade deste país a todos cidadãos de Estados membros da CPLP que se encontravam neste arquipélago da África equatorial à data da independência em 1975. Foi fixado o prazo de seis meses, ou seja […]

CRC Concluding Observations: Mauritius, 2015

Published: 27/Feb/2015
Source: UN Committee on the Rights of the Child

CRC/C/MUS/CO/3-5 The Committee considered the consolidated third to fifth periodic reports of Mauritius (CRC/C/MUS/3–5) at its 1940th and 1942nd meetings (see CRC/C/SR.1940 and 1942), held on 14 and 15 January 2015, and adopted the following concluding observations, at its 1983rd […]