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Egypt parliament gives government 14 days to draft new Equal Citizenship Law

Published: 1/Nov/2016
Source: Al Ahram (Cairo)

A law drafted by the parliament’s legislative committee is currently barred from discussion upon request of government Egypt’s House of Representative gave the government a 14-day ultimatum to finish drafting a new Equal Citizenship Law, Al-Ahram Arabic website reported on […]

CRC Concluding Observations: Sierra Leone, 2016

Published: 1/Nov/2016
Source: UN Committee on the Rights of the Child

CRC/C/SLE/CO/3-5 Birth registration 16. Taking note of target 16.9 of the Sustainable Development Goals on providing legal identity for all, including birth registration, the Committee recommends that the State party: (a) Continue its efforts to register all children, especially those […]

Women and Citizenship in Sudan and South Sudan: A Comparative Analysis

Published: 1/Nov/2016
Source: Birkbeck Law Review

By Nasredeen Abdulbari Volume 4 Issue 1, November 2016 Incompatibilities between national laws, on the one hand, and international law, human rights rules and principles of citizenship with regard to women, their children (who are born to a foreign father) […]

CRC Committee asks South Africa and Saudi Arabia to address childhood statelessness

Published: 1/Nov/2016
Source: Institute for Statelessness and Inclusion

Extract from Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion Bulletin on Statelessness, October 2016 At the 73rd session of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child (September 2016), a strong set of recommendations on protecting children’s right to a nationality […]

Focus on: Citizenship for the Makonde in Kenya

Published: 1/Nov/2016
Source: Institute for Statelessness and Inclusion

Extract from: Statelessness Monthly Bulletin October 2016 Members of the Makonde community in Kenya, after 40 years of statelessness, have finally found recognition as Kenyan citizens. The Makonde people say they were born in Kenya after their forefathers arrived in […]

Madhewoo v. The State of Mauritius and another (Privy Council Appeal)

Published: 31/Oct/2016
Source: Judicial Committee of the Privy Council (UK)

[2016] UKPC 30 Privy Council Appeal No 0006 of 2016 1.   The National Identity Card Act 1985 (“the 1985 Act”) provides for adult citizens of Mauritius to carry identity cards which bear their names and signatures. More recently, the […]

DHA streamlines birth certificates to ease minor travel

Published: 31/Oct/2016
Source: News 24 (South Africa)

By Louzel Lombard Cape Town – The Department of Home Affairs has scrapped having two versions of the birth certificate, an abridged (issued for new-borns up until 2013) and an unabridged birth certificate detailing both parents details (issued to all […]

South Africa: Dad takes takes on Gigaba over baby’s citizenship

Published: 30/Oct/2016
Source: Independent Online (South Africa)

By BALDWIN NDABA Johannesburg – An SANDF member has taken Minister of Home Affairs Malusi Gigaba to the high court after his department allegedly refused to register his eight-month-old daughter, born to a Congolese woman, as a South African national. […]

Government to recognize the Isahakia community as Kenyans

Published: 29/Oct/2016
Source: K24 TV

Yet another community that has been in the country for decades and never succeeded as being recognised as Kenyan citizens, Friday paid President Uhuru Kenyatta a courtesy call at State House Nairobi.  The Isahakia community, a native Somali community was among the first people […]