According to information provided to IPI, on 8 December, Trevor Ncube, publisher of the South African Mail and Guardian newspaper, as well as Zimbabwe’s The Standard and Zimbabwean Independent newspapers, had his passport confiscated by a plainclothes member of the […]
By Pablo San Martin, Journal of North African Studies, Vol.10, No.3–4 (September–December 2005) pp.565–592 Abstract: This article explores the processes of development and naturalisation of the Saharawi national identity that emerged during the 1970s under the leadership of the Frente […]
CRC/C/UGA/CO/2 Fortieth 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: Uganda Birth registration 37. The Committee notes with appreciation that the delegation underscored […]
Télécharger: Rapports d’Etats Parties du Niger au CEDEF (Extraits) (PDF)
CEDAW/C/NER/1-2 Initial and second report of the Niger on the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women Final Document submitted June 2001; published November 2005. 15. While appreciating the various legal reforms that have taken place, […]
CERD/C/NGA/CO/18 21. The Committee notes with concern that the provision regarding the acquisition of nationality as laid down in section 26 (2) (a) of the Constitution does not appear to comply fully with article 5 (d) (iii) of the Convention, […]
The following study focuses on self-settled refugees who were once living in camps, but are presently self-settled and living in Koboko. Most of these refugees fled the settlements due to insecurity, others left in search of economic opportunities in town, yet […]
BOUAKE, 1 November 2005 (IRIN) – “We needed a war because we needed our identity cards,” explained rebel fighter Adama Traore, one of thousands of rebels who control the northern half of Cote d’Ivoire. “Without an identity card you are […]
Frederick Cooper, ‘The Politics of Citizenship in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa’, Studia Africana Vol.16 (2005): 14–23. “My goal in this article is to look at a crucial period in African history, the decade and a half after World War II […]
CRC/C/15/Add.269 Fortieth session Consideration of Reports Submitted by States Parties Under Article 44 of the Convention Concluding observations: Algeria Birth registration 35. The Committee emphasizes that the birth registration system should be equally accessible to all parents in the whole […]
Most of Batswana – especially women – place too much trust in foreigners and end up in marriages undergone to acquire Botswana citizenship. The Minister of Labour and Home Affairs, Major General Moeng Pheto, says there is a growing trend […]
Zimbabwe Country Report Presented to the Eastern and Southern Africa Conference on Universal Birth Registration “Improving Services to Protect the Rights of Children”, Mombasa, Kenya, 26 – 30 September 2005. Download: Zimbabwe_Country_Report_Birth_Reg_2005