Art.1: La présente loi a pour objet d’organiser l’état civil en République du Tchad et de fixer les conditions des actes y relatifs. Art.76: La présente loi abroge toutes dispositions antérieures contraires, notamment l’ordonnance 03/INT du 02 juin 1961, réglementant […]
There is still serious confusion over whether the new draft constitution allows for dual citizenship or not, with the parties in government appearing to translate the new rules differently. The new document does not explicitly allow or deny Zimbabweans the […]
The Honourable Minister of Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Hon. Patrick Chinamasa (MP) advised the public that all citizens of Zimbabwe who are 18 years and above are eligible to register as voters. This applies to the following persons: Citizens […]
This paper is about the experience of people living in Khartoum State who identify themselves as being from one of the conflict-affected areas of Sudan. It focuses primarily on those from the newly independent state of South Sudan, the (now) […]
Tilburg Law School Legal Studies Research Paper Series No. 010/2013 By Laura van Waas Introduction Little is known about the problem of statelessness in the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya (Libya) today. Neither the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) – […]
Case: The Prosecutor v. Bosco Ntaganda Situation: Situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo ICC-01/04-02/06-53-Anx1, Annex 1 to the Transmission to Pre-Trial Chamber II of a Registry report on proof of identity documents available in the Democratic Republic of […]
Le Burundi a naturalisé 12 individus depuis 2012 à nos jours. Avec leur famille, il s’agit de 28 nouveau burundais(es). Le 8 mars dernier et le 18 juillet 2012, S.E. Nkurunziza Pierre, le très populaire président africain du Burundi, par […]
La Commission africaine des droits de l’homme et des peuples (la Commission africaine), réunie pour sa 53ème session ordinaire tenue à Banjul, en Gambie, du 09 au 22 avril 2013. Rappelant les dispositions de l’article 45(1) (b) de la charte africaine des […]
By Violet Gonda, SW Radio Africa Zimbabwe-born businessman Mutumwa Mawere filed an urgent Constitutional Court application on Tuesday asking the court to confirm constitutional provisions on dual citizenship and to stop the 30-day voter registration exercise until his case is finalised. […]
Zimbabwe’s draft constitution deal reached last month by President RobertMugabe, Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai and Industry and Commerce Minister Welshman Ncube could dominate proceedings in Parliament, which opens on Tuesday for its first session this year. Legislators are widely expected […]
Despite repeated commitments by governments around the world to ensure women’s equality by repealing discriminatory laws, sex discrimination persists, including in citizenship and nationality laws. This is damaging to the lives of women and their families. Although there has been […]
Julia Harrington and Laura Bingham, ‘Never-Ending Story: The African Commission Evolving through Practice in Malawi Africa Association, et al v. Mauritania’, Human Rights & International Legal Discourse 7, no. 1 (2013): 6–55. Abstract In 2000, the African Commission on Human […]