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 […]
CRC/C/TZA/CO/2 Enregistrement des naissances 31.Tout en se félicitant des mesures prises par l’État partie dans ce domaine, notamment de l’introduction du programme d’inscription à l’état civil au niveau des collectivités locales ainsi que de la création d’un bureau d’enregistrement des naissances […]
« Greentree agreement » between the Republic of Cameroon and the Federal Republic of Nigeria concerning the modalities of withdrawal in the Bakassi Peninsula. Download file: here
Louise Thomas, Refugees and Asylum Seekers from Mixed Eritrean-Ethiopian Families in Cairo, Centre for Forced Migration and Refugee Studies, American University in Cairo, 2006. People from mixed EritreanEthiopian families have been caught on the ‘front line’ of hostile relations between Eritrea […]
« The Refugees Act has been commenced and is in force with the exception of certain parts that require additional institutional and structural establishments under the Act beyond the existing structures. Overall, the Refugees Act reflects international legal standards of refugee […]
Un Conseil des ministres s’est tenu ce mercredi 31 mai 2006 au palais de la présidence de la République, de 11h à 14h, sous la présidence du chef de l’Etat, Son Excellence Monsieur Laurent Gbagbo. C’est sur une note de […]
ABIDJAN, 30 May 2006 (IRIN) – Mariam Diomande stood patiently clutching her application papers for a nationality document as she lined up with dozens of other young women in the sun-baked courtyard of the local town hall. Diomande, a 19-year-old […]
An Act to make new provision for matters relating to refugees, in line with the 1951 Convention relating to the status of refugees and other internatioanl obligations of Uganda relating to the status of refugees; to estalbish an Office of […]
UN Economic and Social Council, Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, Fifth Session For the first time in its five-year history, the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues today turned its attention to the plight of Africa’s indigenous peoples, with […]
A pilot scheme to provide thousands of Ivorians with identity papers and voting cards kicked off across war-divided Cote d’Ivoire on Thursday, though few turned up to hearings in the government controlled south which were disrupted by supporters of the […]
by * TONI HANCOX THEY met, fell in love and got married. He is Namibian, she isn’t. It should be one of the happiest times in a couple’s life – the period of wedded bliss just after marriage. From the […]
RES/45/SP.1 The Asian African Legal Consultative Organization at its Forty-Fifth Session, Noting the appreciation of the views expressed by the Secretary General of AALCO, the UNHCR Chief of Mission, New Delhi, the Chairperson, Panelists, as well as the deliberations reflecting […]