A group of Mauritanian exiles living in New York has come forward to accuse the former ruler of their country of « gross violations of human rights. » They are challenging their country’s justice system even as they charge the former ruler […]
FARAI CHIDEYA, host: On Africa’s northwestern coast sits Mauritania. It straddles the continent’s black African south and Arab north. From 1989 to 1991, the former French colony experienced ethnic cleansing similar to what’s happening now in Darfur, Sudan. The country’s Arab […]
CMW/C/EGY/CO/1 34.Le Comité regrette que les enfants nés en Égypte de travailleurs migrants, en situation régulière ou irrégulière, ne reçoivent pas de certificat de naissance de l’état civil égyptien, en violation de l’article 29 de la Convention, qui dispose que […]
Establishes the National Identity Management Commission and its powers to create a national identity database, register registrable persons, and issue identity cards. Download: Nigeria_NIMC_Act_2007
Introductory Remarks by Mrs. Julia Dolly Joiner, Commissioner for Political Affairs African Union Commission on the Launching of the African Union Diplomatic and Service Passports at the Celebration of Africa Day 25 May 2007 Download file: Introductory Remarks by Julia […]
Ahmadou Sadio Diallo (Republic of Guinea v. Democratic Republic of the Congo) Preliminary Objections Summary of the Judgment of 24 May 2007 Download file: Judgement in the Case Concerning Ahmadou Sadio Diallo (PDF)
Council of ministers decree providing that birth registration shall be free. Download file: here
Editors: Paul Nugent, Daniel Hammett, and Sara Dorman Who belongs to the nation? How is citizenship defined? And why have such identities become so politically explosive in recent years? This book explores the instrumental manipulation of citizenship and narrowing definitions […]
CRC/C/MLI/CO/2 Nationalité 35.Le Comité s’inquiète de ce que, d’après la législation en vigueur, la nationalité ne puisse pas être transmise par la mère. 36. Par souci de non ‑discrimination et dans l’intérêt supérieur de l’enfant, le Comité recommande à l’État […]
By Oliver Bakewell Abstract: Migration policies inevitably rest on bureaucratic responses concerned with the use of identity papers, visas, passports and other forms of paperwork. In research looking at movement between North-West Zambia and Angola, in Zambia, a very striking […]
(HC 7758/06) [2007] ZWHHC 25 MAKARAU JP: The facts of this matter are not in dispute. I set them out. The applicant entered Zimbabwe in 1980. At the time he declared he was born in Arusha, Tanzania. In 1982 he […]
By Francis Tim Mbom Nigerians born and bred in Cameroon have requested that the Cameroon Government to relax its laws on nationality so that they can naturally, too, have the right of Cameroonian citizenship. The law on Cameroonian citizenship is […]