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/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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
September 25, 2010 (JUBA) – Recent remarks made by Kamal Obeid, Sudan Information Minister on the status of southern Sudanese living in the north, should the latter opt for independence in next year’s referendum, totally undermines the ongoing post-referendum discussions […]
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/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 […]
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 […]
By Sebastian Kohn The year was 1923, and Sebi Rajab had worked for the King’s African Rifles–the British colonial army–since the end of the war. It wasn’t exactly what he had hoped to do with his life, but the British […]
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 (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 […]
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 […]