Samantha Balaton-Chrimes, “Counting as Citizens: Recognition of the Nubians in the 2009 Kenyan census”, Ethnopolitics 2011, Vol.10, No.2, pp 205-218. Abstract: This article uses the case of the Nubians in Kenya as an ethnic minority, and the 2009 Kenyan census […]
Voter’s Eligibility 24. A voter shall be a resident of Abyei Area according to Article 6(1) of Abyei Area Protocol namely: (a) Members of Ngoc Dinka Community; (b) Other Sudanese residing in Abyei Area in accordance with the criteria of […]
Voter’s Eligibility 25. The voter shall meet the following conditions: 1) Born to parents both or one of them belonging to one of the indigenous communities that settled in Southern Sudan on or before the 1st of January 1956, or […]
La loi 61 112 du 2 juin 1961 privait, automatiquement, de sa nationalité, tout mauritanien titulaire par naturalisation d’une nationalité étrangère. L’assemblée nationale mauritanienne, réuni en plénière vendredi 25 décembre, a abrogé la disposition rendant impossible la double nationalité. L’article […]
Afin de permettre aux populations pauvres de jouir de leurs droits civiques et dans le cadre de la préparation de l’électorat pour 2010, le Ministre de l’Intérieur, M. Edouard Nduwimana, en présence du Représentant Exécutif du Secrétaire Général des Nations […]
Amnesty International has welcomed the news that Aminatou Haidar, a Sahrawi human rights activist who has spent the past month on hunger strike in Lanzarote airport, has returned home and been reunited with her children. Aminatou Haidar said that she […]
By Lucy Hovil Recent research in Burundi on the repatriation of refugees has highlighted the strong link between land and citizenship. The research (“Two People Can’t Share the Same Pair of Shoes: Citizenship, Land and the Return of Refugees to […]
A/HRC/13/3 The present report recalls the legal framework applicable to the right to nationality and addresses the issue of the prohibition of arbitrary deprivation of nationality. It emphasizes that States have an obligation to implement fully the principle of non-discrimination, […]
Kenyan women will be able to secure citizenship for their foreign husbands if the harmonised draft constitution is enacted. The draft says this includes those who are already married. The men will only secure citizenship if they have been married […]
Establishing procedures for registration of citizenship, including by an adopted child, and for permission to hold dual citizenship. Download: Uganda Citizenship Regulations 2009 (draft) As published in the Government Gazette (SI 2009 No.63): Uganda Citizenship Regulations (scan: 2MB)
An Act to provide for reform and consolidation of laws relating to children, to stipulate rights of the child and to promote, protect and maintain the welfare of a child with a view to giving effect to international and regional […]
By Faith Chipepera and Katharina G Ruppel-Schlichting “The aim of this paper is to determine how children form part of Namibian citizenry: for example, in what ways do children acquire such status? What requirements need to be met before they […]