Substitutes the Fifth Schedule to the Constitution, on regional governments. New Article 4 provides that: (2) A person shall not be qualified to be elected a regional chairperson unless — (a) he or she is a citizen of Uganda by […]
According to information provided to IPI, on 8 December, Trevor Ncube, publisher of the South African Mail and Guardian newspaper, as well as Zimbabwe’s The Standard and Zimbabwean Independent newspapers, had his passport confiscated by a plainclothes member of the […]
By Pablo San Martin, Journal of North African Studies, Vol.10, No.3–4 (September–December 2005) pp.565–592 Abstract: This article explores the processes of development and naturalisation of the Saharawi national identity that emerged during the 1970s under the leadership of the Frente […]
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 […]
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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/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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]