Not long ago, Libya opened its doors to foreigners. Eager for cheap labor, the Libyan government and its leader Mu`ammar al-Qadhafi welcomed Africans in the spirit of pan-African solidarity. Those days are gone. Around 2000, the government began fearing that […]
EU Countries Must Press Libya to Protect Migrants, Asylum Seekers, Refugees The Libyan government subjects migrants, asylum seekers and refugees to serious human rights abuses, including beatings, arbitrary arrests and forced return, Human Rights Watch said in a report released […]
By Stephen Jackson, African Studies Review, Volume 49, Number 2 (September 2006), pp. 95–123 Abstract: The recent wars in the DR Congo have led to a marked upsurge in both elite and popular discourse and violence around belonging and exclusion, […]
CEDAW/C/COD/CO/5 31. Tout en se félicitant que l’article 5 de la nouvelle législation sur la nationalité permette aux femmes de transmettre la nationalité congolaise par filiation de la même façon que les hommes, le Comité regrette que l’article 30 prévoit […]
ABIDJAN, 11 August 2006 (IRIN) – A dispute this week over plans to hand out ID cards to millions of undocumented residents of war-divided Cote d’Ivoire threatens to further disrupt the country’s faltering peace process. With more than one out […]
The Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR) today expressed support for the proposal to remove religion from national identity (ID) cards. The proposal will be discussed tomorrow at a workshop organized by the National Council for Human Rights (NCHR). Although […]
ABIDJAN, 26 July 2006 (IRIN) – A programme of identification of Ivorian nationals, a key element to restoring peace in Cote d’Ivoire, has again sparked violence that left one dead in a tourist resort on the outskirts of the main […]
ABIDJAN, 17 July 2006 (IRIN) – Youths loyal to President Laurent Gbagbo threw up barricades and burned tires in a crowded, poor suburb of Cote d’Ivoire’s largest city on Monday as a crucial effort to identify some 3.5 million undocumented […]
ABIDJAN, 14 July 2006 (IRIN) – President Laurent Gbagbo’s party is threatening a politically sensitive registration scheme to determine who has the right to Ivorian citizenship – an issue that helped spark the almost four-year-old civil war that has divided […]
Télécharger: Loi régissant l’Etat civil
Whenever we see a picture of a refugee it is always someone lying on the ground with flies on their face!” exclaims Dosso Ndessomin. Ndessomin (42) is tired of the portrayal of refugees as passive victims, with endless needs and […]
By Godfrey Kamukunde Kigali — Nationality law establishes the relationship between an individual and one or several states. In the Rwandan context, a Rwandan is anyone who holds the Rwandan nationality under the provisions of the organic law on Rwandan […]