The parliamentary caucus on human rights has given proposals to the refugees bill 2015 currently being fine-tuned in parliament. The Kenya parliamentary human rights association (kephra) held a fact finding mission with the refugees, government officials and members of the […]
Kenya Constitutional Petition No.266 of 2013 BABY ‘A’ (Suing through her mother, E.A)……………….………………1ST PETITIONER THE CRADLE-THE CHILDREN FOUNDATION……………………………..2ND PETITIONER AND ATTORNEY GENERAL……………………………………….…………….1ST RESPONDENT KENYATTA NATIONAL HOSPITAL…………………………..…………..2ND RESPONDENT THE REGISTRAR OF BIRTHS AND DEATHS………………..…………..3RD RESPONDENT Extract: « On or about 3rd May […]
A community on Kenya’s East Coast has finally won a battle stretching back more than half a century. The Makonde people migrated there for work during the colonial era and, for decades, they have been living in limbo – denied […]
Tiveram direito a cidadania após a independência, em julho de 1975. O multipartidarismo retirou-lhes esse direito. Agora reposto. Abel Coelho de Morais « Quem mostra » bo/Ess caminho longe? Ess caminho/Pa São Tomé (…). Sodade sodade/Sodade/Dess nha terra Sao Nicolau ». A nostalgia […]
Lawyers for Human Rights appeared in the North Gauteng High Court on Wednesday on behalf of a number of separated minors to deal with access to education and documentation for this vulnerable group. An interim order was granted in 2013 […]
The current debates to consider legislation or constitutional review on “Dual Citizenship” for Liberians diaspora in the United States of America, elsewhere as well as future challenges for job marginalization have become worrisome for many Liberian citizens wanting to return […]
Nigeria, sub-Saharan Africa’s largest economy and home to almost 180 million people, will hold elections on March 28, a six-week delay after its initial date. While international commentators focus debate on the Boko Haram crisis and the risk of electoral […]
Nationality laws which do not grant women equality with men in conferring nationality to their children are a cause of statelessness and a concern for UNHCR under its mandate to prevent and reduce statelessness. Since 2012, UNHCR has issued an […]
Egypt’s Supreme Constitutional Court (SCC) ruled Saturday unconstitutional a law banning dual nationality citizens from running in parliamentary elections. The ruling opens the door for further postponement of parliamentary elections after an administrative court ordered a halt to all preparations […]
In close cooperation with the UN Refugee Agency, Malian authorities have officially delivered birth certificates to 32 Mauritanian refugee children born in Mali in a ceremony in Kayes, in the western part of the country, yesterday (6 March). The ceremony […]
By: Anuradha Mittal Is the 2015 “Iowa Agriculture Summit” really a bi-partisan forum to promote agriculture, or yet another scheme devised by multi-millionaire Iowan Bruce Rastetter to hijack issues impacting farmers and agriculture for his self-serving political and economic agenda? […]
L’Action 3 du Plan d’action global fait appel aux États de supprimer la discrimination basée sur le genre de leur législation sur la nationalité. L’instauration de l’égalité des genres dans les législations sur la nationalité du monde entier constituerait une […]