Archives de l'auteur Bronwen Manby

CERD Concluding Observations: Algeria, 2013

février 20, 2013 9:50 am Publié par Commentaires fermés sur CERD Concluding Observations: Algeria, 2013

CERD/C/DZA/CO/15-19 B.Aspects positifs 4.Le Comité se félicite de la révision constitutionnelle du 22 avril 2002 instituant la langue amazighe comme langue nationale. […] 8.Il note avec satisfaction les amendements apportés au code de la nationalité en février 2006 qui permettent […]


Experts to discuss stronger value for citizen rights in Nigeria

février 19, 2013 12:00 am Publié par Commentaires fermés sur Experts to discuss stronger value for citizen rights in Nigeria

The real content of citizenship rights in the country is the theme of a high-level colloquium organized for Wednesday, February 20, in Abuja, to help remedy what constitutional experts believe is one of the major weaknesses of the Nigerian constitution […]


Dual citizenship encouraging corruption in S. Sudan

février 16, 2013 12:00 am Publié par Commentaires fermés sur Dual citizenship encouraging corruption in S. Sudan

South Sudanese citizens possessing dual citizenship in outside countries remain the impetus behind corruption practices in the new nation, a senior member of South Sudan ruling party (SPLM) has said. Franco Douth Diu, the SPLM secretary for Leer County in […]


S. Sudan launches compulsory civil registration at childbirth

février 13, 2013 7:10 pm Publié par Commentaires fermés sur S. Sudan launches compulsory civil registration at childbirth

February 13, 2013 (JUBA) – South Sudan on Wednesday launched plans for compulsory civil registration at childbirth, in an attempt to count and account for every South Sudanese citizen. The exercise was launched at a seminar in the South Sudan […]


Lesotho: Eyob Belay Asemie v P.S. Ministry of Home Affairs and Others

février 13, 2013 9:46 am Publié par Commentaires fermés sur Lesotho: Eyob Belay Asemie v P.S. Ministry of Home Affairs and Others

(CIV/APN/519/12) [2013] LSHC 19 (13 February 2013) Summary Application to interdict respondent from denying applicant use of regular passport and to review and set aside the declaration of the passport as null and void to be irregular, unconstitutional and unlawful […]


Researching Palestinian refugees in the Arab World: the case of Egypt

février 9, 2013 12:00 am Publié par Commentaires fermés sur Researching Palestinian refugees in the Arab World: the case of Egypt

By Oroub el Abed Abstract The several flows of Palestinians who arrived in Egypt due to established fear of wars or due to professional and socio-economic reasons in the years 1948, 1956 and 1967 endeavoured to integrate in the Egyptian […]


Frederik Ngubane, stateless in South Africa: “It’s like my future is on hold”

janvier 30, 2013 12:00 am Publié par Commentaires fermés sur Frederik Ngubane, stateless in South Africa: “It’s like my future is on hold”

Frederik Ngubane, 22, returned to South Africa, the country of his birth, in 2009, after spending his entire childhood in Kenya and Uganda. An orphan, Ngubane had lost all contact with his South African relatives, and soon after arriving in […]


Group wants stronger value for citizen rights in Nigerian Constitution

janvier 30, 2013 12:00 am Publié par Commentaires fermés sur Group wants stronger value for citizen rights in Nigerian Constitution

The National Human Right Commission, NHRC, leads the Open Society Initiative for West Africa, OSIWA, and PREMIUM TIMES to debate the status of residency rights in Nigeria The National Human Right Commission (NHRC), along with the Open Society Initiative for […]


CEDAW: Rapports initiaux et deuxièmes rapports périodiques, Swaziland

janvier 29, 2013 6:25 pm Publié par Commentaires fermés sur CEDAW: Rapports initiaux et deuxièmes rapports périodiques, Swaziland

Article 9 9. Introduction 9.1 Les questions relatives à l’acquisition, le changement, la perte et la déchéance de la citoyenneté sont régies par la Constitution de 2005 et la loi sur la citoyenneté de 1992. Ces textes de loi sont […]


Kenya: Hersi Hassan Gutale & Another v. Attorney General & Another

janvier 21, 2013 12:00 am Publié par Commentaires fermés sur Kenya: Hersi Hassan Gutale & Another v. Attorney General & Another

Decision of High Court at Nairobi (Nairobi Law Courts) on Petition 50 of 2011 relating to requirements to confirm the veracity of registration documents of all Kenyans of Somali origin. Download file: here


Battle for SA citizenship drags on

janvier 15, 2013 12:00 am Publié par Commentaires fermés sur Battle for SA citizenship drags on

It has been three years and the senior manager of communications in the KwaZulu-Natal legislature, Leon Mbangwa, is still fighting a court battle for South African citizenship. Mbangwa successfully brought an application in the Pietermaritzburg High Court in August 2009 […]


Zimbabwe: Citizenship error leaves children stateless

janvier 13, 2013 12:00 am Publié par Commentaires fermés sur Zimbabwe: Citizenship error leaves children stateless

Now back in Zimbabwe, Barbara Nicholas says her children have been rendered stateless because of the failure by the UK Home Office to renew their passports. Nicholas says she and her family moved to the UK in 2003, where they […]