Citizenship and Country Documents
US Government Reports
- State Department - Country Documents
- Canada Responses to Information Requests (RIRs)
- SEN102311.FE - Senegal: Citizenship laws, including methods by which a person may obtain citizenship; whether dual citizenship is recognized and, if so, how it is acquired; process for renouncing citizenship and related documents; grounds for withdrawing an individual's citizenship - April 2007
- SEN43197.E - Senegal: Possibility of, and requirements for an adult person to apply for and obtain citizenship in Senegal if the person resided in Senegal for a period of four years - Dec. 2004
Foreign Government Repots
- Canada Responses to Information Requests (RIRs)
- SEN102402.FE - Senegal: The procedures for obtaining a birth bulletin and a national identity card - Feb. 2007
US Government Reports
Non-Government Organization Reports
- Amnesty International
- Senegal: Human Rights between Regression and Repression Amnesty International : Submission to the 45th Session of the UPR Working Group, January-February 2024 - July 2023
- Coalition to Stop the use of Child Soldiers - Child Soldiers Global Report - 2008
- Human Rights Watch
Foreign Government Reports
- Canada Responses to Information Requests (RIRs)
- SEN100525.FE - Senegal: Forced recruitment of adult Dioula living in Ziguinchor by the Movement of Democratic Forces of Casamance (Mouvement des forces démocratiques de Casamance, MFDC); the consequences of refusing recruitment and the protection offered by police forces - Aug. 2005
- SEN43299.FE - Senegal: Situation of the Diola in Dakar; their treatment by the authorities and by the population, specifically in the case of a Muslim Diola woman born in Kaolack to Casamance parents - Jan. 2005
- World Directory of Minorities - Diola (Jola)
Foreign Government Reports
- Canada Responses to Information Requests (RIRs)
- SEN43336.FE - Senegal: Update to SEN29267.F of 5 May 1998 on excision; the practices and their frequency among women over 21 years of age and among the Fulani (or Peuhl) people - Feb. 2005
- SEN42537.FE - Senegal: The situation of women of the Toucouleur ethnic group, including whether they are subjected to forced marriages - April 2004
Foreign Government Reports
- Canada Responses to Information Requests (RIRs)
- SEN41576.FE - How marriages between men of the Jawandoo caste and women of the Toroodo caste are viewed by the Toucouleur people - May 2003
Non-Government Organization Reports
- Human Right Watch Profiles
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“It’s Not Normal” Sexual Exploitation, Harassment and Abuse in Secondary Schools in Senegal – Oct. 2018
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US Government Reports
- State Department Country Reports on Human Rights Practices -
- Amnesty International Profiles
- Senegal: Human Rights between Regression and Repression Amnesty International : Submission to the 45th Session of the UPR Working Group, January-February 2024 - July 2023
- Amnesty International Report 2022/23: The state of the world’s human rights - Mar. 2023
- Any tidal wave could drown us – Stories from the climate crisis - Nov. 2022
- Freedom House -
- International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH)
- Steadfast in Protest - Oct. 2011
Foreign Government Reports
- Canada Responses to Information Requests (RIRs)
- SEN100618.FE - Senegal: Whether Senegal is still a member of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS); if so, the conditions for nationals of other ECOWAS member countries to enter and exit Senegal and the rights of those who settle in Senegal - Oct. 2005
- Amnesty International
- Making Love a Crime: Criminalization of Same-Sex Conduct in Sub-Saharan Afica - April 2013
US Government Reports
Foreign Government Reports
- Canada Responses to Information Requests (RIRs)
- SEN42213.FE - The Association Singhère-Bissine that was reportedly created in November 1991 with the union of two other associations, Singhère and Bissine; whether the Association Singhère-Bissine is suspected by the Senegalese authorities of financing the Movement of Democratic Forces of Casamance (MFDC) - Nov. 2003
US Government Reports
- State Department International Religious Freedom Report - 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, July - Dec. 2010, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005
- Canada Responses to Information Requests (RIRs)
- SEN43299.FE - Situation of the Diola in Dakar; their treatment by the authorities and by the population, specifically in the case of a Muslim Diola woman born in Kaolack to Casamance parents - Jan. 2005
Foreign Government Reports
- Canada Responses to Information Requests (RIRs)
- SEN104382.E - The situation of sexual minorities in Senegal, including societal attitudes and whether there is a difference in the treatment of lesbians and gay men; state protection - May 2013
- Human Rights Watch
- Fear for Life: Violence Against Gay Men and Men Perceived as Gay in Senegal - Nov. 2010
Foreign Government Reports
- Canada Responses to Information Requests (RIRs)
- SEN100525.FE - Senegal: Forced recruitment of adult Dioula living in Ziguinchor by the Movement of Democratic Forces of Casamance (Mouvement des forces démocratiques de Casamance, MFDC); the consequences of refusing recruitment and the protection offered by police forces - Aug. 2005
- Amnesty International
- Anti-Corruption Fight in Peril – Crackdown on Anti-Corruption Human Rights Defenders in West and Central Africa - July 2023
- Ireland Refugee Documentation Center
- Information on heavy fighting in Casamance area of Senegal from December 2010 to present. Information on MFDC rebels and government soldiers fighting - Feb. 2011
Non-Government Organization Reports
- Amensty International
- Senegal: Human Rights between Regression and Repression Amnesty International : Submission to the 45th Session of the UPR Working Group, January-February 2024 - July 2023
- Freedom House
- Freedom in the World - 2022
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Updated July 18, 2023