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UNHCR resumes repatriation of Mauritanian refugees in Senegal

Published: 19/Oct/2010
Source: UNHCR

By: Fatoumata Lejeune-Kaba, ed. Leo Dobbs ROSSO, Mauritania, October 19 (UNHCR) – The UN refugee agency has resumed its repatriation operation for Mauritanian refugees from Senegal following a 10-month break. A first group of 121 people were taken to the […]

CRC Concluding observations: Burundi, 2010

Published: 19/Oct/2010
Source: UN Committee on the Rights of the Child

CRC/C/BDI/CO/2 Birth registration 37. The Committee notes the Presidential Decree of 2006 that guarantees free birth registration for all children up to the age of 5 years and the project to promote universal birth registration and conduct a campaign to […]

Constitutional citizenship in South Africa

Published: 5/Oct/2010
Source: International Journal of Constitutional Law

Klaaren, Jonathan (2010). “Constitutional citizenship in South Africa”, International Journal of Constitutional Law, Vol.8, No.1, pp. 94-110. Abstract The South African concept of constitutional citizenship draws on national and African traditions in addition to its firm grounding in international law. […]

Nigeria: Bakassi FG accuses Cameroon of breaching agreement

Published: 26/Sep/2010
Source: This Day (Nigeria)

By Onyebuchi Ezigbo Abuja — The National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, has lamented the incessant harassment of Nigerians by Cameroonian gendarmes in Bakassi Peninsula, saying the action amounted to a wilfull breach of the Green Tree Agreement brokered by the […]

Tragedies of the stateless

Published: 20/Sep/2010
Source: Open Society Foundations

by Adam Hussein Adam, Africa program officer for the Open Society Justice Initiative’s citizenship and statelessness project. “Are my documents in order?” I asked the official. This was my fifth attempt in ten years to obtain a Kenyan passport. Now […]

CERD Concluding Observations: Morocco, 2010

Published: 13/Sep/2010
Source: UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination

CERD/C/MAR/CO/17-18 B.Positive aspects 3.The Committee welcomes the adoption of a number of laws aimed at preventing and combating racial discrimination, in particular: […] (c)Act No. 62-06 of 2007, amending the Nationality Code of 1958 to bring about equality between men […]

Tragedies of the Stateless

Published: 10/Sep/2010
Source: Open Society Foundations

By Adam Hussein Adam “Are my documents in order?” I asked the official. This was my fifth attempt in ten years to obtain a Kenyan passport. Now I was before the Criminal Investigations Department for an in-person “vetting.” “Identification cards could […]

Sierra Leone government to review citizenship law

Published: 8/Sep/2010
Source: The Patriotic Vanguard (Freetown)_

By Gibril Koroma The Lebanese community in Sierra Leone usually try very hard to stay out of the news headlines but an old citizenship law has recently forced one of them to speak out. Indeed the archaic and colonial citizenship […]

Morpho participe au renouvellement du système d’état civil mauritanien

Published: 7/Sep/2010
Source: Morpho (communiqué de presse)

Morpho (groupe Safran) a signé un contrat avec le Ministère de l’intérieur et de la décentralisation de Mauritanie pour la mise en oeuvre du programme de production et sécurisation des documents nationaux d’identification. Ce projet constitue l’une des composantes fondamentales […]

Libya: Step Ahead for Women on Nationality Rights

Published: 2/Sep/2010
Source: Human Rights Watch

But New Law Still Falls Short; Government Should Ensure Full Equality (Beirut) – Libya’s new nationality law granting women married to foreign spouses the right to pass their own nationality to their children is a significant move forward for women’s […]