By Liesl Louw-Vaudran, ISS Consultant The nationality and parentage of heads of state is a sensitive issue all over the world, and especially in Africa. For years, those in power in Côte d’Ivoire, for example, maintained that President Alassane Ouattara […]
The law amends the nationality code to remove restrictions on dual nationality and end discrimination in transmission of nationality between spouses. The law, however, creates conditions for the acquisition of nationality by marriage that did not previously exist. Women naturalizing […]
CEDAW/C/GIN/CO/7-8 Observations finales concernant les septième et huitième rapports périodiques (présentés en un seul document) de la Guinée Nationalité Le Comité note avec préoccupation que certaines dispositions du Code civil restent en contradiction avec l’article 9 de la Convention et […]
By Bronwen Manby Contribution to collection of essays « The Return of Banishment: Do the New Denationalisation Policies Weaken Citizenship? » published by the European Union Democracy Observatory on Citizenship (now renamed GlobalCit); the paper was also collected with others in the […]
By Beldina Nyakeke,The Citizen Correspondent Musoma. Parents of the man at the centre of a nationality dispute have been told to lodge an appeal with the Butiama district authorities for the matter to be heard. The parents are querying a […]
Kuwait’s announcement that tens of thousands of stateless people will be offered citizenship of the impoverished African nation of Comoros has highlighted their decades-old plight. But a representative of the community whose members demand Kuwaiti citizenship rejected the Gulf Arab […]
Minutes of Meeting of Parliamentary Committee on Home Affairs, 11 November 2014 The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) gave a presentation outlining their function and work in South Africa, including their mandate, the people included under their jurisdiction […]
Tens of thousands of stateless people in Kuwait – known as Bidun – could be offered citizenship of the Comoros islands off Africa, an official says. The senior interior ministry official told a local newspaper that the Bidun would be […]
It is now 60 years since stateless people received recognition in international law, and the UN has two conventions (1954 and 1961) dedicated to their protection and the regularization of their situation. Yet an estimated 10 million people worldwide still […]
Across the world today more than ten million people are told they don’t belong ANYWHERE.They are called ‘stateless’. They are denied a nationality. And with it, they are denied their basic rights. Statelessness can mean a life without education, without […]
More than 195,000 Zimbabweans have in recent weeks applied to remain in South Africa under the new Zimbabwe Special Permits dispensation, the home affairs department said Tuesday. Almost another 50,000 were expected to do so by months’ end. “In October, […]
« Through the present general recommendation, the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women aims to provide authoritative guidance to States parties on legislative, policy and other appropriate measures to ensure the implementation of their obligations under the Convention on […]