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Tanzania: Kadhi Court, Union, citizenship debate rock CA

Published: 14/Sep/2014
Source: Daily News

Members of the Constituent Assembly started their eight-day debate on the 12 committees reports on the constitution draft on Tuesday, with the Kadhi court, dual citizenship and structure of the union remaining touchy. Read more.

Kenya has more than 42 tribes, so why is this still the magic number?

Published: 12/Sep/2014
Source: The Nation (Nairobi)

By GABRIELLE LYNCH In Summary While the 1999 National Census opted not to publish ethnic data, the 2009 count provided codes for no less than 111 ethnic groups. The Nubians, for example, argued that, while their forefathers had come to […]

New Ivory Coast citizens no longer “live like ghosts”

Published: 11/Sep/2014
Source: Thompson Reuters Foundation

Ivory Coast has some 700,000 stateless people within its borders, one of the biggest stateless populations in the world By Misha Hussain TENKODOUGOU, Ivory Coast, Sept 11 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Three years after the civil war, patriotic sentiment is […]

Community paralegals and the legal empowerment approach to statelessness

Published: 11/Sep/2014
Source: Statelessness Programme, Tilburg Univ.

By Laura Goodwin Mohammad Javed is an Urdu-speaking entrepreneur living in the middle of Dhaka, the capital city of Bangladesh. Looking to grow his business, Mohammad decided to travel to India to start importing spare auto-rickshaw parts for his own […]

Video: Belonging Part One

Published: 11/Sep/2014
Source: Lawyers for Human Rights, South Africa

First short film by Dee Lourens for Lawyers for Human Rights, tells the story of Frederik, a stateless man in South Africa. View the video.

A comparative analysis of nationality laws in the MENA region

Published: 7/Sep/2014
Source: Tilburg Law School

“This report was written by Dr.Laura van Waas of the Statelessness Programme, Tilburg Law School. The analysis of the nationality laws was undertaken jointly with Ms. Zahra Albarazi, also of the Statelessness Programme in Tilburg and input on specific laws […]

South Africa: Department of Home Affairs Circular No.5 of 2014

Published: 3/Sep/2014
Source: South African Department of Home Affairs

Requirements relating to paternity tests in respect of registration of births and referral to national health laboratory services. Download: SADeptHomeAffairs-DNA-Circular-5-2014

CA teams in dual citizenship duel

Published: 3/Sep/2014
Source: Daily News (Tanzania)

Most Constituent Assembly (CA) committees have supported the idea of granting ‘special status’ as opposed to dual-citizenship to people of Tanzanian origin who have willingly obtained citizenship in foreign countries. The second draft constitution compiled by the now defunct Constitutional […]

Statelessness in Burundi

Published: 31/Aug/2014
Source: IWACU (Burundi)

Descendants of Omani nationals have found themselves at risk of statelessness in Burundi after so many years living in this country. They face difficulties in getting papers and are not eligible to thesame privileges and rights that Burundi’s citizens receive.–By […]

Assembleia Nacional prepara alteração à Lei da Nacionalidade

Published: 26/Aug/2014
Source: www.governo.gov.ao

A Ministra dos Assuntos Parlamentares, Rosa Luís de Sousa Micolo, participou terça-feira, 12 de Agosto de 2014, na Sessão Plenária da Assembleia Nacional, que aprovou, na generalidade, a proposta de Lei de Alteração à Lei da Nacionalidade. O Diploma vai […]