By Stephen Jackson, African Studies Review, Volume 49, Number 2 (September 2006), pp. 95–123 Abstract: The recent wars in the DR Congo have led to a marked upsurge in both elite and popular discourse and violence around belonging and exclusion, […]
CEDAW/C/COD/CO/5 Extract: “31. While welcoming article 5 of the new legislation on nationality, which enables women to transmit Congolese nationality through filiation in the same way as men, the Committee regrets that article 30 provides that women cannot retain their […]
ABIDJAN, 11 August 2006 (IRIN) – A dispute this week over plans to hand out ID cards to millions of undocumented residents of war-divided Cote d’Ivoire threatens to further disrupt the country’s faltering peace process. With more than one out […]
The Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR) today expressed support for the proposal to remove religion from national identity (ID) cards. The proposal will be discussed tomorrow at a workshop organized by the National Council for Human Rights (NCHR). Although […]
ABIDJAN, 26 July 2006 (IRIN) – A programme of identification of Ivorian nationals, a key element to restoring peace in Cote d’Ivoire, has again sparked violence that left one dead in a tourist resort on the outskirts of the main […]
ABIDJAN, 17 July 2006 (IRIN) – Youths loyal to President Laurent Gbagbo threw up barricades and burned tires in a crowded, poor suburb of Cote d’Ivoire’s largest city on Monday as a crucial effort to identify some 3.5 million undocumented […]
ABIDJAN, 14 July 2006 (IRIN) – President Laurent Gbagbo’s party is threatening a politically sensitive registration scheme to determine who has the right to Ivorian citizenship – an issue that helped spark the almost four-year-old civil war that has divided […]
Les documents à produire à l’appui d’une demande d’acquisition de la nationalité congolaise. Télécharger: Arrêté ministériel no.261 du 04 juillet 2006
Télécharger: Loi régissant l’Etat civil
Whenever we see a picture of a refugee it is always someone lying on the ground with flies on their face!” exclaims Dosso Ndessomin. Ndessomin (42) is tired of the portrayal of refugees as passive victims, with endless needs and […]
By Godfrey Kamukunde Kigali — Nationality law establishes the relationship between an individual and one or several states. In the Rwandan context, a Rwandan is anyone who holds the Rwandan nationality under the provisions of the organic law on Rwandan […]
CRC/C/TZA/CO/2 Forty-second session Consideration of Reports Submitted by States Parties Under Article 44 of the Convention Concluding observations: United Republic of Tanzania Birth registration 31. While welcoming the measures taken by the State party in this respect, including the introduction […]