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/28/85 125

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