After two decades of living in Liberia, 300 former Sierra Leonean refugees have been conferred Liberian citizenship as countries around the world marked World Refugee Day on 20 June. The former refugees took the Oath of Allegiance at Criminal Court […]
Standing in a winding queue in downtown Harare, Zimbabwe’s capital, Judith Kapito, 38, cannot hide her excitement: she is waiting to receive a new identity document, one that will offer her rights and opportunities she has long been deprived of. […]
Liberia granted 300 Sierra Leonean refugees citizenship on Thursday at a ceremony to mark World Refugee Day. Around 100,000 people fled Sierra Leone to neighboring Liberia in 1991 when rebels from the Revolutionary United Front attempted to overthrow the government […]
CRC/C/RWA/CO/3-4 Concluding observations on the third and fourth periodic reports of Rwanda, adopted by the Committee at its sixty-third session (27 May–14 June 2013) The Committee states: Birth registration 25. While the Committee notes that Law Nº 54/2011 of 14 […]
CRC/C/GIN/CO/2 Enregistrement des naissances 44. Le Comité se félicite des nombreuses mesures que l’État partie a prises pour accroître le taux d’enregistrement des naissances, notamment la création en 2011 d’une Direction nationale de l’état civil, mais il relève toutefois avec […]
By: Jennifer C. Seely, Emma Diambogne Dioufa, Charlotte-Anne Malischewskia, Maria Vaikatha & Kiah Young-Burnsa Citizenship Studies, Vol.17, Nos.3-4, 2013, pp.429-446 In recent publications, Manby (2009, 2010) has pointed out serious inequities in African citizenship laws. As women are one of […]
Par Edouard Madirisha Le gouvernement du Burundi a ratifié les principaux instruments internationaux de protection des réfugiés et ceux-ci ont été intégrés dans la législation nationale. C’est dans ce cadre que le gouvernement s’est doté d’une instance spécifique : l’Office […]
Rejected by the countries they call home and denied the most basic of rights, stateless people live in a shadowy limbo — in the words of one such person, like being « between the earth and the sky ». Up to 15 […]
1. Loi n° 62-64 du 20 Février 1962, instituant une Carte nationale d’Identité 2. Décret n° 67-86 du 10 Mars 1976, fixant les modalités d’application de la loi n°62-64 du 20 Février, instituant une Carte nationale d’Identité 3. Décret n° […]
29 countries deny women the right to transfer their nationality to their children.This report details the effects of this gender discrimination in two countries where the practice persists (Jordan and Kuwait) and describes the benefits where the law has changed […]
Nasredeen Abdulbari, « Identities and citizenship in Sudan: Governing constitutional principles » African Human Rights Law Journal, (2013) Vol.13 pp.383-414 In several states across the globe, the relationship between the state and its cultural, religious, ethnic, and tribal components is still an […]
Simon Imbert-Vier, Northeast African Studies, Vol.13, No.2, 2013, pp. 123-149. This article analyzes the ethnic denominations around the Gulf of Tadjoura. By using travel narratives from the nineteenth century and colonial archives from the twentieth, it provides a history of these […]