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Kenya: Court case to test child rights law

Published: 3/Feb/2005
Source: Pambazuka

The principle of non-discrimination is well established all over the world. It is to be found in most international conventions as well as in many countries municipal laws. Kenya is no exception and the principle is found in Kenya’s constitution […]

Lives on hold: The Human Cost of Statelessness

Published: 1/Feb/2005
Source: Refugees International

By M. Lynch Every person has the right to a nationality. Yet statelessness continues to be a fundamental cause of discrimination, exploitation, and forced displacement in all regions of the world. Statelessness is a highly complex legal and often political […]

Zimbabwe: Regularise citizenship status: RG’s Office

Published: 18/Jan/2005
Source: The Herald (Harare)

THE Registrar-General’s Office has invited people made “stateless” by the Citizenship Amendment Act number 12 of 2003 to come forward and regularise their citizenship status. Failure by the affected people to regularise their citizenship would result in them failing to […]

Palestinian refugees of Egypt: What exit options are left for them?

Published: 1/Jan/2005
Source: Refuge (Canada's Journal on Refugees)

Oroub El-Abed, “Palestinian Refugees of Egypt: What Exit Options Are Left for Them?” Refuge Vol.22, No.2, 2005 Abstract: This paper, based on personal interviews, analysis of Egyptian administrative regulations, and observation of practice of international and regional agreements on refugees, […]

Horizontal inequalities and violent conflict: The case of Cote d’Ivoire

Published: 1/Jan/2005
Source: Department of International Development, Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford

Author: Arnim Langer Abstract: In order to explain the emergence of ethnic violence, scholars from different disciplines have focused on different factors, such as the role of ethnicity, the individual gain from civil war, the relative deprivation explanations, and the […]

Kenya: Minorities, Indigenous Peoples and Ethnic Diversity

Published: 1/Jan/2005
Source: Minority Rights Group International

By Maurice Odhiambo Makoloo This report documents the plight of minorities and indigenous peoples in Kenya today. Minorities and indigenous peoples are poorer than other communities, their rights are not being respected, and they are not included in development or […]

Cabo Verde: Compilation of nationality laws

Published: 31/Dec/2004

[as amended to 2004] Parte I 1. Constituição da República de Cabo Verde 2. Pactos internacionais Parte II Secção/1 – Lei da Nacionalidade – Lei n.º 80/III/90 de 29 de Junho alterada pelas leis n.º 41/IV/92 de 6 de Abril […]

Constitution de la République centrafricaine 2004

Published: 27/Dec/2004

Art. 61 : Sont du domaine de la loi: 1. Les règles relatives aux matières suivantes: les droits civiques et les garanties fondamentales accordées aux citoyens pour l’exercice des libertés publiques; le respect du quota accordé aux femmes dans les […]