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Press Release: Libya: Migrants Abused, But Europe Turns Blind Eye

Published: 12/Sep/2006
Source: Human Rights Watch

EU Countries Must Press Libya to Protect Migrants, Asylum Seekers, Refugees The Libyan government subjects migrants, asylum seekers and refugees to serious human rights abuses, including beatings, arbitrary arrests and forced return, Human Rights Watch said in a report released […]

CEDAW Concluding Observations: DRC, 2006

Published: 25/Aug/2006

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 […]

Cote d’Ivoire: Row erupts over ID cards in new blow to peace

Published: 11/Aug/2006

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 […]

Cote d’Ivoire: More violence surrounding identification program

Published: 26/Jul/2006

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 […]

Cote d’Ivoire: Pro-Gbagbo youths threaten key pre-election ID handout

Published: 17/Jul/2006
Source: IRIN

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 […]

Cote d’Ivoire Delay in key bid to hand out ID papers

Published: 14/Jul/2006
Source: IRIN

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 […]

‘We want to be citizens not charities’ say refugees

Published: 27/Jun/2006
Source: Mail & Guardian (South Africa)

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 […]

Rwanda: Understanding Rwandan Nationality

Published: 26/Jun/2006
Source: The New Times (Kigali)

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 […]