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CRC Concluding Observations: Uganda, 2005

Published: 23/Nov/2005
Source: UN Committee on the Rights of the Child

CRC/C/UGA/CO/2 Fortieth session Consideration of Reports Submitted by States Parties under Article 44 of the Convention Concluding observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child: Uganda Birth registration 37. The Committee notes with appreciation that the delegation underscored […]

Niger: State Report to CEDAW, 2005

Published: 21/Nov/2005
Source: UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women

CEDAW/C/NER/1-2 Initial and second report of the Niger on the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women Final Document submitted June 2001; published November 2005. 15. While appreciating the various legal reforms that have taken place, […]

CERD Concluding Observations: Nigeria, 2005

Published: 1/Nov/2005
Source: UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination

CERD/C/NGA/CO/18 21. Le Comité note avec préoccupation que la disposition concernant l’acquisition de la nationalité figurant au paragraphe 2 a) de l’article 26 de la Constitution ne semble pas être pleinement conforme à l’alinéa d iii) de l’article 5 de […]

There are no refugees in this area: Self-settled refugees in Koboko

Published: 1/Nov/2005
Source: Refugee Law Project (Kampala)

The following study focuses on self-settled refugees who were once living in camps, but are presently self-settled and living in Koboko. Most of these refugees fled the settlements due to insecurity, others left in search of economic opportunities in town, yet […]

Cote d’Ivoire: What’s in a name: A fight for identity

Published: 1/Nov/2005
Source: IRIN

BOUAKE, 1 November 2005 (IRIN) – « We needed a war because we needed our identity cards, » explained rebel fighter Adama Traore, one of thousands of rebels who control the northern half of Cote d’Ivoire. « Without an identity card you are […]

The Politics of Citizenship in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa

Published: 16/Oct/2005
Source: Studia Africana (Centro de Estudios Africanos de Barcelona)

Frederick Cooper, ‘The Politics of Citizenship in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa’, Studia Africana Vol.16 (2005): 14–23. « My goal in this article is to look at a crucial period in African history, the decade and a half after World War II […]

CDE Observations finales: Algérie, 2005

Published: 12/Oct/2005
Source: UN Committee on the Rights of the Child

CRC/C/15/Add.269 Enregistrement des naissances 35.Le Comité souligne que l’accès au système d’enregistrement des naissances devrait être le même pour tous les parents sur l’ensemble du territoire de l’État partie et réitère à cet égard la préoccupation que lui inspirent les insuffisances du […]

Scramble for Botswana citizenship

Published: 7/Oct/2005
Source: Botswana Gazette

Most of Batswana – especially women – place too much trust in foreigners and end up in marriages undergone to acquire Botswana citizenship. The Minister of Labour and Home Affairs, Major General Moeng Pheto, says there is a growing trend […]

Uganda Constitution Amendment Act, No.11 of 2005

Published: 26/Sep/2005

Part III amends Articles 14-17 in Chapter III of the 1995 Constitution on citizenship, relating to dual citizenship and naturalisation; Part XVI, Art 48, amends schedule three of the constitution, to add ethnic groups to the list of those considered […]

Constitution of Zimbabwe Amendment (No. 17) Act 2005

Published: 16/Sep/2005

Amends sections 22 and 23 of the constitution on freedom of movement and non-discrimination. Amendment of section 22 of Constitution Section 22 (“Protection of freedom of movement”) of the Constitution is amended: (a) in subsection (3)(a) by the deletion of […]