Case Law

15 April 2013 | Judicial Body: Colombia: Corte Constitucional | Topic(s): Children's rights - Right to a nationality - Right to registration at birth | Countries: Colombia - Venezuela

29 March 2012 | Judicial Body: United Kingdom: Court of Appeal (England and Wales) | Topic(s): Citizenship / Nationality law - Denial of nationality - National security / Public order - Right to a nationality - Statelessness - Statelessness Determination Procedures - Terrorism - Withdrawal of nationality | Countries: Iraq - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

16 November 2011 | Judicial Body: France: Cour nationale du droit d'asile | Topic(s): Denial of nationality - Proof of nationality - Refugee status determination (RSD) / Asylum procedures - Right to a nationality - Statelessness | Countries: Armenia - Azerbaijan - France - Russian Federation

11 October 2011 | Judicial Body: Council of Europe: European Court of Human Rights | Topic(s): Citizenship / Nationality law - Denial of nationality - Multiple nationality - Proof of nationality - Right to a nationality | Countries: Malta

Heard at Field House Determination on 18 to 20 January 2011. The following Country Guidance cases on Ethiopia are superseded or replaced, as the case may be, by the present determination: GG (Return – Eritrean) Ethiopia CG [2002] UKIAT 05996; NB (Mixed Ethnicity – Ethiopian – Eritrean) Ethiopia CG [2002] UKIAT 06526; AA (Children – Eritrean) Ethiopia CG [2002] UKIAT 06533; TG (Mixed Ethnicity) Ethiopia CG [2002] UKIAT 07289; and DA (Ethnicity – Eritrean – Country Conditions) Ethiopia CG [2004] UKIAT 00046. The case summary in English has been prepared in the framework of the Knowledge-Based Harmonisation of European Asylum Practices Project (2010-2012), co-financed by the European Refugee Fund.

30 June 2011 | Judicial Body: United Kingdom: Upper Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) | Topic(s): Country of origin information (COI) - Denial of nationality - Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity - Eritreans - Racial / Ethnic persecution - Refugee status determination (RSD) / Asylum procedures - Returnees - Right to a nationality - Statelessness | Countries: Ethiopia

22 March 2011 | Judicial Body: African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (ACERWC) | Topic(s): Children's rights - Citizenship / Nationality law - Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity - Right to a nationality - Right to registration at birth - Statelessness | Countries: Kenya

Ninety-eighth session of the Human Rights Committee (8 to 26 March 2010)

21 May 2010 | Judicial Body: UN Human Rights Committee (HRC) | Topic(s): Exhaustion of domestic remedies - Persecution of family members - Right to a nationality - Right to family life | Countries: Guyana

The Court, declaring enforceable the expression 'mediante tratados internacionales vigentes', helds that Latin American and Caribbean nationals born in Colombia may obtain Colombian citizenship on the basis of different forms of reciprocity.

2 December 2009 | Judicial Body: Colombia: Corte Constitucional | Countries: Colombia

6 August 2009 | Judicial Body: Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) | Topic(s): Deportation / Forcible return - Equal opportunities - Equality before the law - Housing, land and property rights (HLP) - Residence permits / Residency - Right to a nationality - Right to liberty and security | Countries: Ecuador

21 June 2006 | Judicial Body: United Kingdom: Asylum and Immigration Tribunal / Immigration Appellate Authority | Topic(s): Bedoon - Changes of circumstances in home country - Country of origin information (COI) - Credibility assessment - Equality before the law - Refugee status determination (RSD) / Asylum procedures - Right to a nationality - Social group discrimination - Social group persecution - State protection - Statelessness | Countries: Kuwait - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland