Kenya Constitution 1969 (as amended to 2008)
Published: 11/Dec/2008
Chapter VI provides for citizenship. Download file here.
2008
Published: 11/Dec/2008
Loi relative à la citoyenneté économique en Union des Comores, 2008
Published: 3/Dec/2008
Art 1: “L’acquisition de la citoyenneté économique par décision de l’autorité publique résulte d’une décision accordée à la demande d’une personne majeure ayant la qualité de partenaire économique du Gouvernement des Comores” Télécharger (Al Watwan, p.2): Loi relative à la […]
A Right or a Privilege: Access to Identity and Citizenship in Zimbabwe
Published: 1/Dec/2008
Source: Research and Advocacy Unit, Harare
By Rumbidzai Dube Identity documents are tags reflective of an individual’s history and heritage. Without identity documents individuals fall into a bureaucratic limbo as procedures for telling who they are, where they are from, and to whom they are connected […]
The Invisible Refugee Camp: Durable Solutions for Boreah ‘Residuals’ in Guinea
Published: 1/Dec/2008
Source: Journal of Refugee Studies
Lacy Andrews Gale Journal of Refugee Studies Vol. 21, No. 4 [2008]. doi:10.1093/jrs/fen040 What happens when refugees do not repatriate post-conflict? For those who remain in refugee camps, the remaining, durable solutions of resettlement and local integration may be neither […]
Human Rights in Western Sahara and in the Tindouf Refugee Camps
Published: 1/Dec/2008
Source: Human Rights Watch
This report is in two parts. Part one examines present-day human rights conditions in Western Sahara. Part two examines present-day human rights conditions in the Sahrawi refugee camps administered by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Saguia el-Hamra and […]
Constitution of Zimbabwe Amendment No.19 Bill
Published: 27/Nov/2008
3rd draft of the proposed new text for the constitutional amendments to form a government of national unity (not the version finally adopted).. Download file: here
Zimbabwe, Constitution Amendment No 19 Bill – MDC draft
Published: 24/Nov/2008
Proposals from the opposition MDC for the constitutional amendments to form a governmnet of national unity (not the version finally adopted). Download file: here
Gambia Refugee Act 2008
Published: 17/Nov/2008
The Gambia Refugee Act adopts the definition of a refugee from the 1951 Refugee Convention and the OAU Convention Governing the Specific Aspects of Refugee. The Act also includes protection of stateless refugees within its definition, including any person “not […]
Zimbabwe, Constitution Amendment No.19 Bill – ZANU-PF draft
Published: 17/Nov/2008
Proposals from ZANU-PF for the constitutional amendments to form a government of national unity (not the version finally adopted). Download file: here
Going Home or Staying Home: Ending Displacement for Burundian Refugees in Tanzania
Published: 13/Nov/2008
Source: International Refugee Rights Initiative
This paper focuses on issues of belonging and exclusion for refugees who fled Burundi in the early 1970s and sought refuge in Tanzania. More than three decades later, and with a peace agreement ending active hostilities in Burundi, “durable solutions” […]
Mbororo claims to regional citizenship
Published: 1/Nov/2008
Source: Africa (Journal)
Michaela Pelican “Mbororo Claims to Regional Citizenship and Minority Status in North-West Cameroon”, Africa, 2008, Vol. 78, No.4, pp 540-560 Abstract: Discourses on autochthony, citizenship and exclusion have become popular in Cameroon as well as in other parts of Africa, […]
Cote d’Ivoire: Communique Ressortissants CEDEAO
Published: 31/Oct/2008
Source: Cabinet du Premier Ministre, Cote d'Ivoire
Le Premier Ministre, Monsieur Guillaume Kigbafori SORO et le Président de la Commission EIectorale Indépendante, Monsieur Robert Mambé BEUGRE, portent à la connaissance des populations qu’il revient de manière récurrente que des citoyens ressortissants de pays membres de la CEDEAO […]