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 […]
The Sahrawi are the indigenous people of Western Sahara, who descended from Berber and Arab tribes. The following is a report on the human rights situation facing the Sahrawi people who reside in the disputed territory of Western Sahara under […]
Hassan Tahsin The granting of Egyptian nationality to foreigners is an important issue that could have serious implications for the country’s national security, especially at this critical juncture in Egypt’s history. The issue is now making newspaper headlines along with […]
L’actualité de ces derniers jours en RDC ou de façon plus globale, dans les pays dits des Grands Lacs africains est dominée par la reddition mystérieuse du sieur Ntaganda, Général de son état. Son passé dans différentes rébellions qui ont […]
Which of Côte d’Ivoire’s 20 million inhabitants qualify as nationals is a question that has driven political debate and conflict here for many years, and one that came to the fore earlier this month when thousands of people who had […]
At the Registrar General’s office in this city, queues form as early as 3 in the morning. By 8, they wind all the way around the building and into the street, where vendors sell a medley of randomness: bananas and […]
It is a decision that could potentially change the electoral game in Zimbabwe. In a landmark ruling, the African Commission on Human and People’s Rights (ACHPR) has passed a provisional measure directing the government to allow exiled Zimbabweans and those […]
At least Andoni Goikoetxea is clear about what he must do first in his new post as Equatorial Guinea’s manager – beat Cape Verde in two weeks’ time. If the Butcher of Bilbao can lift a team that has underperformed […]
The Final Report of the Truth, Justice & Reconciliation Commission of Kenya (2013), available at https://digitalcommons.law.seattleu.edu/tjrc-core/. Final Report, Vol.IIC. Chapter 3 considers the situation of Minority Groups, Indigenous People and Gross Violation of Human Rights, including access to citizenship. An […]
Citizenship is about the right to belong to a state and enjoy its rights while also fulfilling obligations. Without citizenship, a person can neither vote nor be voted into public office. Such statelessness has, in many an African country, been […]
It is rare for host countries to offer citizenship to groups of refugees, especially in the Great Lakes region where millions have been displaced. Instead, most governments wait for circumstances to change so that refugees can go back to their […]