By Marshall Godfrey ALENYO Thesis submitted for Masters of Law (LLM) International Human Rights and Public Policy The objective of this thesis is to highlight the interaction between international refugee law and the right to a nationality with particular focus […]
Crooked priests, corrupt officials and dishonest traditional leaders are among those responsible for many foreigners making their way onto the National Population Register (NPR), Home Affairs Minister Malusi Gigaba said on Sunday. Briefing the media in Pretoria, he told reporters […]
The hopes of over three million Tanzanians living abroad for a new Constitution that allows dual citizenship were dashed following concerns that such a provision would pose a threat to national security. However, the idea, which was backed by President […]
CERD/C/CMR/CO/19-21 Citoyenneté et risque d’apatridie 19.Saluant les efforts de l’État partie afin de doter la population de pièces d’identité, en particulier à travers les campagnes récentes, le Comité s’inquiète néanmoins du nombre important de personnes vivant sur le territoire national […]
Zwelakhe Mda v Minister of Home Affairs and Others (Constitutional Case No.4 of 2014) [2014] LSHC 30 (24 September 2014) Civil Procedure – Application procedure – Dispute of fact – Urgency – Constitutional Litigation rules. Constitutional law – Arbitrary deprivation […]
La Cour décide: Article 1er.- Les articles 8, 12.2, 13 et 18 de la Loi n°65-17 du 23 juin 1965 portant code de la nationalité béninoise sont contraires à la Constitution. Article 2.- Les articles 7 et 22 de la […]
Minister of Home Affairs Malusi Gigaba has announced changes to the implementation of South Africa’s new visa rules. Speaking at a press briefing in Cape Town Gigaba announced the new requirement of an unabridged birth certificate for all children travelling […]
Identity cards are meant to identify the individuals identity and the purpose of introduction has nothing to do with Voting and ELECTIONS at all. it’s a long term project that will have great benefits to the people of Somaliland origin […]
Members of the Constituent Assembly started their eight-day debate on the 12 committees reports on the constitution draft on Tuesday, with the Kadhi court, dual citizenship and structure of the union remaining touchy. Read more.
Ivory Coast has some 700,000 stateless people within its borders, one of the biggest stateless populations in the world By Misha Hussain TENKODOUGOU, Ivory Coast, Sept 11 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Three years after the civil war, patriotic sentiment is […]
By Laura Goodwin Mohammad Javed is an Urdu-speaking entrepreneur living in the middle of Dhaka, the capital city of Bangladesh. Looking to grow his business, Mohammad decided to travel to India to start importing spare auto-rickshaw parts for his own […]
First short film by Dee Lourens for Lawyers for Human Rights, tells the story of Frederik, a stateless man in South Africa. View the video.