When you talk or hear about aliens you imagine uninvited, scary creatures from outer space, foreign, totally strange things that are not human, they do not look like you, well, at least physically. They do not speak the same language […]
La loi 61 112 du 2 juin 1961 privait, automatiquement, de sa nationalité, tout mauritanien titulaire par naturalisation d’une nationalité étrangère. L’assemblée nationale mauritanienne, réuni en plénière vendredi 25 décembre, a abrogé la disposition rendant impossible la double nationalité. L’article […]
Afin de permettre aux populations pauvres de jouir de leurs droits civiques et dans le cadre de la préparation de l’électorat pour 2010, le Ministre de l’Intérieur, M. Edouard Nduwimana, en présence du Représentant Exécutif du Secrétaire Général des Nations […]
Amnesty International has welcomed the news that Aminatou Haidar, a Sahrawi human rights activist who has spent the past month on hunger strike in Lanzarote airport, has returned home and been reunited with her children. Aminatou Haidar said that she […]
A/HRC/13/3 The present report recalls the legal framework applicable to the right to nationality and addresses the issue of the prohibition of arbitrary deprivation of nationality. It emphasizes that States have an obligation to implement fully the principle of non-discrimination, […]
By Lucy Hovil Recent research in Burundi on the repatriation of refugees has highlighted the strong link between land and citizenship. The research (“Two People Can’t Share the Same Pair of Shoes: Citizenship, Land and the Return of Refugees to […]
Kenyan women will be able to secure citizenship for their foreign husbands if the harmonised draft constitution is enacted. The draft says this includes those who are already married. The men will only secure citizenship if they have been married […]
Establishing procedures for registration of citizenship, including by an adopted child, and for permission to hold dual citizenship. Download: Uganda Citizenship Regulations 2009 (draft) As published in the Government Gazette (SI 2009 No.63): Uganda Citizenship Regulations (scan: 2MB)
Extracts: Article 5 – THE PEOPLE 1. Citizens of Puntland are all those who are Puntlanders by birth and all others who acquire the status of Puntlander in accordance with the law. 2. Special law shall define the requirements to […]
An Act to provide for reform and consolidation of laws relating to children, to stipulate rights of the child and to promote, protect and maintain the welfare of a child with a view to giving effect to international and regional […]
By Faith Chipepera and Katharina G Ruppel-Schlichting « The aim of this paper is to determine how children form part of Namibian citizenry: for example, in what ways do children acquire such status? What requirements need to be met before they […]
(New York) – Morocco must reverse its expulsion of Sahrawi rights activist Aminatou Haidar and allow her to enter her country of nationality, Human Rights Watch said today. Spain must intercede with Morocco to ensure her return, Human Rights Watch […]