In a setback for equal rights, the Israeli Supreme Court rejected a series of petitions challenging a law that, among other things, makes it impossible for Palestinians to acquire Israeli citizenship through marriage.
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Posted in: Middle East, Rights & Justice
Topics: Adalah, citizenship, discrimination, Israel, occupied Palestinian Territories, Palestinians, Sebastian Kohn, statelessness
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Mauritania has carried out the first prosecutions under its 2007 anti-slavery law. But more needs to be done to manage the unintended consequences of criminalizing a deeply entrenched social phenomemon.
Posted in: Africa, Rights & Justice
Topics: Anti-Slavery International, Arab, Beidanes, Haratines, Julia Harrington Reddy, Maures, mauritania, slavery, statelessness
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In July, the Republic of South Sudan became Africa’s newest independent state. Since then, the Sudanese government in Khartoum has refused to consider the several hundred thousand “southerners” resident in the north—some of them for decades, many of them born there—as citizens of the...
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Sonia Pierre, who died suddenly on Sunday, December 4, will be remembered by all who worked with her as a tireless advocate for the rights of people of Haitian descent in the Dominican Republic.
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The African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (ACERWC) is less than a decade old, it but its first-ever ruling on a complaint affirmed principles that are crucial to eradicating statelessness and minimizing discrimination against vulnerable minorities.
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The manipulation of citizenship laws for political purposes has long been a popular way of excluding opponents and silencing critics. In Zambia it's become all too familiar.
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In the small town of Malindi, Kenya, women who use drugs will never receive the services they deserve until the community listens to their needs.
Posted in: Africa, Education & Youth, Health, Rights & Justice
Topics: citizenship, criminal justice, drug policy, drug treatment, harm reduction, HIV/AIDS, human rights, Kenya, malaria, Malindi, needle exchange, police abuse, pregnancy, public health, sex workers, statelessness, Umra Omar, women
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A decision by an African regional children’s rights committee delivered on behalf of tens of thousands of children in Kenya who grow up without citizenship rights has set a new standard for tribunals both in Africa and around the world in the battle against statelessness.
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An outbreak of violence in southern Mauritania has drawn attention to fears among the country's black population that a government census could lead to loss of citizenship rights.
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Tens of thousands of Congolese refugees are poised to return to their home country after more than a decade of exile in neighboring Rwanda. They face a cold welcome.
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