Date
Type
Case No
Country
Mandate(s)
Summary of the allegation transmitted
Reply
TGO 1/2014
14/11/2014 Togo
AL
Discrimination
against women ;
Lettre concernant des normes discriminatoires envers les femmes dans la loi sur la
nationalité. Selon les informations reçues, la loi sur la nationalité de 1978 ne permet
pas aux femmes togolaises de transmettre leur nationalité à leurs enfants (art. 3) sauf
dans la situation où le père est apatride ou de nationalité inconnue, ce qui est en
contradiction avec l’article 32 de la Constitution de 1992, qui accorde la nationalité
togolaise aux enfants à la fois de pères ou de mères togolaises.
15/01/2015
ARE 6/2014
14/11/2014 United Arab
AL
Emirates
Discrimination
against women ;
Letter concerning discriminatory provisions against women in nationality legislation.
According to the information received, women in the United Arab Emirates can only
confer their nationality to their children if the father is unknown, stateless, his
nationality is not known or filiation has not been established.
GBR 5/2014
Freedom of
14/11/2014 United Kingdom expression;
JUA
of Great Britain Torture;
and Northern
Ireland
20/11/2014
Allegations concerning the imminent deportation of a Rwandan journalist from the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to Rwanda, where he risks
being harassment, arbitrarily detained, ill-treated and tortured, and possibly killed.
According to the information received, Mr. Niyonsaba, a Rwandan journalist who
worked for the Umuseso newspaper in Rwanda, left his country to seek asylum in the
United Kingdom in August 2012, following the closure of the newspaper and serious
attacks against journalists in Rwanda, including staff of Umuseso. It is alleged that,
considering Mr. Niyonsaba’s links to the Umuseso newspaper, the attacks and threats
he has suffered in the past, his relations and regular contacts with other Rwandan
journalists in exile and reports of continued attacks against journalists in Rwanda, he
risks being harassed, arbitrarily detained, ill-treated and tortured, and possibly killed if
forcibly returned to Rwanda. Mr. Niyonsaba has reportedly been detained since 12
November 2014 at Coinbrook Immigration Removal Centre where he is awaiting
deportation to Rwanda, scheduled for 16 November 2014.
A/HRC/28/85
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