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L’Afrique pour les droits des femmes: Cahier d’exigences

Published: 4/Mar/2010
Source: FIDH

A l’occasion de la Journée internationale des femmes et du premier anniversaire de la campagne « L’Afrique pour les droits des femmes : ratifier et respecter ! », une centaine d’associations africaines publient leur « Cahier d’exigences », adressé aux […]

Passport lottery

Published: 4/Mar/2010
Source: BBC

In our series of viewpoints from African journalists, Zimbabwean filmmaker and columnist Farai Sevenzo considers the implications of nationality as he flicks through his passport. You must have seen the queues around crumbling official buildings, or agonised over how to […]

Botswana: Official Explains Citizenship Application Process

Published: 1/Mar/2010
Source: Mmegi (Gaborone)

Many foreigners think that it is almost impossible to get Botswana citizenship regardless of how long one has stayed in the country. By Joyce Grey Some foreigners say that they have lived in Botswana and brought development and investment to […]

Official explains citizenship application process

Published: 1/Mar/2010
Source: Mmegi (Gaborone)

Many foreigners think that it is almost impossible to get Botswana citizenship regardless of how long one has stayed in the country. Some foreigners say that they have lived in Botswana and brought development and investment to the country but […]

Southern Sudan Referendum Act 2009

Published: 21/Feb/2010

Voter’s Eligibility 25. The voter shall meet the following conditions: 1) Born to parents both or one of them belonging to one of the indigenous communities that settled in Southern Sudan on or before the 1st of January 1956, or […]

CRC Concluding Observations: Cameroon, 2010

Published: 18/Feb/2010
Source: UN Committee on the Rights of the Child

CRC/C/CMR/CO/2 Fifty-third session, Consideration of Reports Submitted by States Parties under Article 44 of the Convention Concluding observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child: Cameroon Birth registration 33. The Committee notes the ongoing review process of birth registration […]

Morocco: Sahrawi Activists’ Passports Returned

Published: 16/Feb/2010
Source: Human Rights Watch

(Washington, DC) – Morocco’s return of confiscated passports this week to activists living in Western Sahara and the renewal of others is a positive step, Human Rights Watch said today. The government should ensure that no one is prevented from […]

Loi No 2010 – 023 du 11 février 2010 abrogeant et remplaçant certaines dispositions de la loi 61-112 du 12 juin 1961 portant Code de la nationalité mauritanienne

Published: 11/Feb/2010

Modifications principales (entr’autres): Article 9 supprimé (double droit de sol). Article 13 (nouveau): Peut opter pour la nationalité mauritanienne dans l’année précédant sa majorité l’enfant né à l’étranger d’une mère mauritanienne et d’un père de nationalité étrangère. Article 31 (nouveau): […]