“The Refugees Act has been commenced and is in force with the exception of certain parts that require additional institutional and structural establishments under the Act beyond the existing structures. Overall, the Refugees Act reflects international legal standards of refugee […]
Un Conseil des ministres s’est tenu ce mercredi 31 mai 2006 au palais de la présidence de la République, de 11h à 14h, sous la présidence du chef de l’Etat, Son Excellence Monsieur Laurent Gbagbo. C’est sur une note de […]
ABIDJAN, 30 May 2006 (IRIN) – Mariam Diomande stood patiently clutching her application papers for a nationality document as she lined up with dozens of other young women in the sun-baked courtyard of the local town hall. Diomande, a 19-year-old […]
An Act to make new provision for matters relating to refugees, in line with the 1951 Convention relating to the status of refugees and other internatioanl obligations of Uganda relating to the status of refugees; to estalbish an Office of […]
UN Economic and Social Council, Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, Fifth Session For the first time in its five-year history, the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues today turned its attention to the plight of Africa’s indigenous peoples, with […]
A pilot scheme to provide thousands of Ivorians with identity papers and voting cards kicked off across war-divided Cote d’Ivoire on Thursday, though few turned up to hearings in the government controlled south which were disrupted by supporters of the […]
In June 2004 the Law Reform Commission of Tanzania, in accordance with its mandate as provided under sections 4 (2) and 9 (1) of the Law Reform Commission of Tanzania Act, [CAP 171 RE. 2002], and acting on its own […]
by * TONI HANCOX THEY met, fell in love and got married. He is Namibian, she isn’t. It should be one of the happiest times in a couple’s life – the period of wedded bliss just after marriage. From the […]
RES/45/SP.1 The Asian African Legal Consultative Organization at its Forty-Fifth Session, Noting the appreciation of the views expressed by the Secretary General of AALCO, the UNHCR Chief of Mission, New Delhi, the Chairperson, Panelists, as well as the deliberations reflecting […]
A new law requiring national identity cards in order to receive salaries and public services took effect on 1 April on Tanzania’s semiautonomous island of Zanzibar, sending residents scrambling for the necessary documentation on Monday. “As from April 1, most […]
ABIDJAN, 31 March 2006 (IRIN) – The start of a process to identify Ivorian nationals, key to holding presidential elections in Cote d’Ivoire later this year, has been held up by President Laurent Gbagbo, local newspapers said on Friday. Read […]
Thousands of Congolese refugees who fled in the 1970s to Angola from what was then Zaire, are having to decide whether to officially integrate or go home to the now Democratic Republic of the Congo – a country which many […]