A Cuban mother has turned to the Pretoria High Court in desperation as her 5-year-old daughter, who was born in South Africa, is at present a stateless person without any rights, as both the South African and Cuban governments refuse […]
LAWS OF SEYCHELLES: CHAPTER 30, CONSOLIDATED TO 6 JANUARY 2014 Act 18 of 1994, as amended by Act 11 of 2013 Supplementing the constitutional provisions on citizenship. Download: Seychelles Citizenship Act 1994 amended 2013
Hundreds of Cameroonians have been forcefully expelled from neighboring Equatorial Guinea for being in the country illegally. They are complaining that their property was seized and valid transit documents are not being recognized. Part of this issue appears to be […]
Samantha Balaton-Chrimes (2014) « Statelessness, identity cards and citizenship as status in the case of the Nubians of Kenya », Citizenship Studies, 18:1, 15-28 Statelessness as a legal and political problem has attracted increasing attention from scholars and international advocacy organisations in […]
Nigeria Research Network Policy Brief MAIN FINDINGS Constitutional and political controversies about citizenship rights and indigeneity in Nigeria’s 36 states and 774 Local Government Areas have generated more heat than light, and there has been little substantive progress on the […]
Delphine Perrin, « Struggles of Citizenship in the Maghreb » in The Routledge Handbook of Global Citizenship Studies, E. Isin, P. Nyers (eds.), Routledge, 2014, pp.230-239. Download: https://hal-amu.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01395220/document
Extract from chapter 2: Patterns of Discrimination and Inequality Ethnic Discrimination in Relation to Citizenship One of the most significant patterns of direct ethnic discrimination in Sudan’s recent history is the removal of Sudanese citizenship, by virtue of amendments to […]
Caroline McInerney, « Accessing Malagasy Citizenship: The Nationality Code and Its Impact on the Karana » Tilburg Law Review Vol.19 (2014) 182-193 Abstract: At the time Madagascar gained independence, only those who had been naturalized French citizens had the opportunity to choose […]
This is an unofficial summary and translation written by Violeta Barrera, intern at the Fahamu Refugee Programme. On 7 and 8 October 2013, two important cases were decided in the Administrative Chamber of the Audiencia Nacional, a special and exceptional high court […]
Lawyers for Human Rights has been working on issues of statelessness since 2010. We established a Statelessness Project in 2011 and have been assisting stateless persons since this time. We continue to be concerned by the discrimination and absence of […]
Extrait: II.3.4. Les apatrides au Burundi En date du 26 août 2013, une quarantaine de descendants omanais connus au Burundi comme « les arabes » ont organisé un sit-in devant les bureaux du Haut commissariat pour les réfugiés (HCR) au […]
LE PRESIDENT DE LA REPUBLIQUE, CHEF DU GOUVERNEMENT VU La Constitution du 15 septembre 1992 ; VU La Loi n°200/AN/81 du 24 octobre 1981 portant code de la Nationalité Djiboutienne ; VU Le Décret n°81-125/PR du 17 novembre 1981 instituant […]