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Tanzania-Burundi: New Beginnings for the ’1972 Refugees’

Published: 12/Mar/2008
Source: IRIN

Banguabo Mosozi, 68, was a young man when he fled neighbouring Burundi to Tanzania, escaping violence that is estimated to have killed at least 200,000 people. That was in 1972. Now, a father of 14 with four wives, Mosozi is […]

La législation mauritanienne interdit la double nationalité, déclare le directeur des affaires civiles et du sceau au ministère de la justice

Published: 9/Mar/2008
Source: Association d'aides aux veuves et aux orphelins de mauritanie (AVOMM)

La législation mauritanienne interdit la double nationalité, a déclaré le directeur des affaires civiles et du sceau au ministère de la justice, le magistrat Mohamed Abderrahmane Ould Mohamed Lemine. La nationalité mauritanienne se perd et est retirée de toute personne […]

UNHCR asks for $34 million for Burundian refugees in Tanzanian settlements

Published: 21/Feb/2008
Source: UNHCR

GENEVA (UNHCR) – The UN refugee agency is seeking $34 million to realize comprehensive solutions for some 218,000 Burundian refugees who fled to Tanzania in 1972. The two-year programme aims to end one of the world’s most protracted refugee situations. […]

Registration, ID system: Pakistan, Sudan sign agreement

Published: 9/Feb/2008
Source: Dawn (Karachi)

ISLAMABAD, Feb 9 National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra) will help the interior ministry of Sudan for the development and implementation of Sudan’s civil registration and identity system. A formal agreement was signed between officials of Nadra and Kushite Integrated […]

CEDAW Concluding observations : Burundi, 2008

Published: 1/Feb/2008
Source: UN Committee on the Elimination of All forms of Discrimination Against Women

CEDAW/C/BDI/CO/4 29. The Committee notes with concern that article 4 of the Nationality Code does not comply with article 9 of the Convention because it does not allow a Burundian woman married to a foreigner to choose to transmit her […]

Egypt: Court Prohibits Withholding Documents from Baha’is

Published: 29/Jan/2008
Source: Human Rights Watch

Human Rights Watch and the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR) welcomed a January 29 court ruling that struck down the government’s policy of denying essential identity documents and access to basic services to citizens whose religion is not recognized […]

Zambia: Roy Clarke v. The Attorney General

Published: 24/Jan/2008
Source: Supreme Court of Zambia

THE SUPREME COURT OF ZAMBIA, Appeal No. 96A/2004 This is an appeal, by the Attorney General, against the decision of the High Court which nullified the deportation of the Respondent by the Minister of Home Affairs, hereinafter referred to as […]