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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 […]

CRC Concluding Observations: Tanzania, 2006

Published: 21/Jun/2006
Source: UN Committee on the Rights of the Child

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 […]

Refugees and Asylum seekers from mixed Eritrean-Ethiopian families in Cairo

Published: 1/Jun/2006
Source: Centre for Forced Migration and Refugee Studies, American University in Cairo

Louise Thomas, Refugees and Asylum Seekers from Mixed Eritrean-Ethiopian Families in Cairo, Centre for Forced Migration and Refugee Studies, American University in Cairo, 2006. People from mixed EritreanEthiopian families have been caught on the ‘front line’ of hostile relations between Eritrea […]

Uganda: Critique of the Refugees Act (2006)

Published: 1/Jun/2006
Source: Refugee Law Project (Kampala)

“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 […]