By EUDO CITIZENSHIP expert Gianluca Parolin, American University in Cairo When Egyptian voters entered the polling stations on 19 March 2011, they found on the ballot a different text of the proposed amendments previously announced by the Supreme Council of the […]
By EUDO CITIZENSHIP expert Gianluca Parolin, American University in Cairo Just after Mubarak’s resignation on 11 Feb 2011, the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) assumed power and declared the suspension of the 1971 Constitution. A few days later, […]
by Laura Bingham, Julia Harrington Reddy & Sebastian Kohn Open Society Justice Initiative This Open Society Justice Initiative paper examines the definition of a stateless person under international law and the implications this definition has for victims of statelessness around the world. In May 2010, […]
By Sebastian Kohn Abdulhaleem El-Busaidy is only one of millions of Kenyans who are discriminated against in access to Kenyan nationality—despite having a clear right to it under Kenyan law. The main problem is discrimination in the issuance of national ID […]
Download: Guinea Bissau Decreto-Lei 6_2011 regulamento da nacionalidade
The people of Southern Sudan voted overwhelmingly in favour of independence from Sudan as a whole last month, according to official results released on Monday 7 February 2011. With the South seceding from the North of Sudan, an intense political […]
Petition No.1 of 2011 Ruling that additional documents cannot be required for Kenyans of Asian or Arab descent or Muslims to obtain a national ID. Download file: MUHURI v Registrar Judgement 2011
Paper by Bronwen Manby, published in advance of the 2011 referendum on the secession of South Sudan. — Summary Among the many critically important choices that Sudan is facing in the context of the referendums on the status of South […]
More than two dozen civil society organisations called today on the AU’s Peace and Security Council to ensure that the rights of all Sudan’s existing citizens to a nationality are fully protected following the probable secession of South Sudan. The […]
By Dr. Elwathig Kameir, The New Sudan Vision “The separation of the south, even if it is a curse, it remains to be a perceptible political reality that could be turned positively, while transforming its cons into pros, and its […]
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