CRC/C/MOZ/CO/2 Twenty-ninth session Consideration of Reports Submitted by States Parties Under Article 44 of the Convention Concluding observations: Mozambique Birth registration 37. The Committee welcomes the efforts undertaken by the State party to increase birth registration, in particular the adoption […]
Nigeria has approved citizenship status for about 7,000 Liberian and Sierra Leonean refugees in the West African country. For VOA, Gilbert da Costa in Abuja reports that the refugees opted to remain in Nigeria after the U.N. refugee agency closed their […]
Par Abderrahman EL YESSA Résumé: En 1989, un incident sur la frontière entre le Sénégal et la Mauritanie déclenche une spirale d’émeutes xénophobes dans les deux pays. Les violences ont mené à la mise en place d’un pont aérien aux […]
Report of a Civil Society Consultation on African Union Mechanisms and the Protection of Refugees, Internally Displaced Persons and Citizenship Rights The following report provides a narrative account of a consultation that took place in Kampala, Uganda in October 2009. […]
The paper is the second of a series of working papers that form part of a collaborative project between the International Refugee Rights Initiative, the Social Science Research Council, and civil society and academic partners in the Great Lakes region. […]
In Nigeria, five former senior government officials appeared before a federal high court in Abuja Tuesday to answer corruption charges. The case concerns a controversial national identity card project. The multi-million dollar national ID card project had been dogged by […]
The general director of the Electoral Administration Technical Secretariat (STAE), the electoral branch of the Mozambican civil service, Felisberto Naife, confirmed on Tuesday that the Malawian authorities have refused to allow polling stations for the Mozambican general elections to be […]
La plupart sont des Français, des Palestiniens, des Syriens et des Egyptiens Mercredi 21 Octobre 2009 — Les demandes d’acquisition de la nationalité algérienne ont connu une considérable augmentation ces trois dernières années en comparaison de la décennie noire, du […]
By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu There are two ways to kill in human community: you can kill a human being or you can kill the citizen. The first is biological; the second is sociological but no less real. The former is […]
By Paul I. Adujie The renewals of passports palaver or tussles between the federal government of Nigeria on the one hand. And, the former Federal Capital Territory Minister, FCT, Mallam Nasiru El Rufai, and the former Chairperson of Economic and […]
By Bronwen Manby “Give us our identity cards and we hand over our Kalashnikovs”, said the leader of the rebel forces in Cí´te d’Ivoire. Those who have never been deprived of official papers may find it hard to imagine the […]
Statement Submitted by the Open Society Justice Initiative for Consideration by the United Nations Human Rights Council at its Eighth Session, on the occasion of its Universal Periodic Review of Kenya May 3 – 14, 2010 INTRODUCTION 1. The Open […]