Report of a Civil Society Consultation on African Union Mechanisms and the Protection of Refugees, Internally Displaced Persons and Citizenship Rights The following report provides a narrative account of a consultation that took place in Kampala, Uganda in October 2009. […]
Le document est le deuxième d’une série de documents de travail qui font partie d’un projet de collaboration entre l’International Refugee Rights Initiative, le Social Science Research Council et la société civile et des partenaires universitaires dans la région des […]
In Nigeria, five former senior government officials appeared before a federal high court in Abuja Tuesday to answer corruption charges. The case concerns a controversial national identity card project. The multi-million dollar national ID card project had been dogged by […]
The general director of the Electoral Administration Technical Secretariat (STAE), the electoral branch of the Mozambican civil service, Felisberto Naife, confirmed on Tuesday that the Malawian authorities have refused to allow polling stations for the Mozambican general elections to be […]
La plupart sont des Français, des Palestiniens, des Syriens et des Egyptiens Mercredi 21 Octobre 2009 — Les demandes d’acquisition de la nationalité algérienne ont connu une considérable augmentation ces trois dernières années en comparaison de la décennie noire, du […]
By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu There are two ways to kill in human community: you can kill a human being or you can kill the citizen. The first is biological; the second is sociological but no less real. The former is […]
By Paul I. Adujie The renewals of passports palaver or tussles between the federal government of Nigeria on the one hand. And, the former Federal Capital Territory Minister, FCT, Mallam Nasiru El Rufai, and the former Chairperson of Economic and […]
By Bronwen Manby “Give us our identity cards and we hand over our Kalashnikovs”, said the leader of the rebel forces in Cí´te d’Ivoire. Those who have never been deprived of official papers may find it hard to imagine the […]
Statement Submitted by the Open Society Justice Initiative for Consideration by the United Nations Human Rights Council at its Eighth Session, on the occasion of its Universal Periodic Review of Kenya May 3 – 14, 2010 INTRODUCTION 1. The Open […]
The conflict in Western Sahara is one of the longest running and most forgotten in the world. Known as Africa’s last colony, Western Sahara was sold to Morocco and Mauritania by the Spanish when they withdrew in 1976. The Mauritanians […]
By Adow Jubat and Boniface Ongeri He had just hit 18 years in 2006 when as required by law, he decided to get a national identity card. Having been born by Kenyan parents in Garissa District, Khalif Hassan was certain […]
The Zimbabwe land-reform programme was the « best thing that could have happened to an African country », according to President Robert Mugabe. The land grabs that drove thousands of white farmers and their black workers off their land in Zimbabwe over […]