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 […]
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 […]
Peter Geschiere, “Autochthony and Citizenship: New Modes in the Struggle over Belonging and Exclusion in Africa” Forum for Development Studies, Volume 32, Issue 2, 2005, pages 371-384 Abtract: In many parts of Africa ‘autochthony’ and similar localist slogans have acquired […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
Extracts relevant to citizenship in the 2005 interim constitutions for Sudan and Southern Sudan. Extracts from interim constitutions north and southern Sudan 2005
By Rogers Tabe Egbe Orock, University of Buea, Cameroon Nordic Journal of African Studies 14(1): 68–78 (2005) ABSTRACT This paper examines an indigene-settler divide in the Cameroonian urban social space as an emanation of the land question, and hinges on […]
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 […]
[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 […]
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 […]
Extrait de l’exposé de motifs: Par ailleurs, la carte d’électeur pourra servir dans un premier temps de carte d’identité. Son émission et sa remise donneront un double avantage au citoyen de s’inscrire à l’identification et à l’enrôlement : bénéficier d’un […]