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Foreign Government Reports

Canada Responses to Information Requests (RIRs)
    • TCD106332.FE  - Chad: Legislation on nationality, including the procedure to obtain nationality; whether dual nationality is recognized (2007-July 2019) Research Directorate, Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada - July 2019

     

    • TCD106034.FE - Chad: Requirements and procedure for obtaining a national identity card, a passport, a driver’s licence and a vehicle registration (carte grise), both from within the country and from abroad; appearance and security features of these documents, including those issued by the company SOGECT; information on the shortage of these documents – January 2018 
    • TCD102298.E - 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 documentation; grounds for withdrawing citizenship – April 2007 

 

    • TCD102853.E - Forced recruitment by the army including of children; whether this is ongoing; location where raids are being conducted – June 2008 
    • TCD105718.FE - Chad: Child custody rights when the father is deceased, including the mother’s rights if she refuses levirate (2014-2016) - Dec. 2016

 

    • TCD104790.FE - Treatment of members of the Gorani ethnicity by the authorities; treatment of former members of Hissène Habré’s government and their families by society and authorities – March 2014
    • TCD104695.E - The Gorane and Zaghawa ethnic groups, including their history and relationship; treatment of Gorane women by Zaghawa men; whether a single woman can relocate from N'Djamena to another area of the country, including treatment by society and authorities, access to social services – December 2013
    • TCD105225.FE - Chad: Custom of levirate, particularly the tradition among the Zakawa [Zagawa, Zaghawa, Zakhawa], including frequency and recourse available to victims; possibility of a woman living alone in major cities (2014-July 2015) - July 2015
    • TCD105654.FE - Chad: Treatment of members of the Gorane ethnic group [also known as Goran, Daza, Toubou, Dazaga and Dazagada] by the authorities since the presidential elections of April 2016 (April-October 2016) - October 2016

 

    • TCD106164.FE - Treatment of people who oppose the government, including activists or suspected activists from opposition parties – Sept. 2018 

 

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    • TCD43071.FE - Methods for dissolving a marriage that was celebrated before a sheik and duly registered with the state; possibility that the paternal family of the bride (whose father is deceased) may obtain a customary divorce against the will of the married couple (the husband having been held up abroad) and of the maternal family of the bride (including the mother); protection and recourse available to the bride – October 2004

 

    • TCD106310.FE - Chad: The Ngueli [Nguéli, N’Gueli, N’gueli] massacre on 26 November 2016, including the perpetrators, their motivations and victims; treatment of massacre victims and the people who support them; the "Ngueli Victims Assistance Committee" (Comité d’assistance aux victimes de Ngueli) (2016-June 2019) - June 2019

 

    • TCD105026.FE - Chad: Coming into force of the new penal code, particularly article 361 bis, including the process for enacting this code - Dec. 2014

       

 

    • TCD106164.FE - Treatment of people who oppose the government, including activists or suspected activists from opposition parties – Sept. 2018 
    • TCD105078.FE - Chad: Movement for Peace and Development in Chad (Mouvement pour la paix et le développement du Tchad, MPDT), including its structure, objectives, leaders and activities; its membership cards; current situation of the former leader of the party, Mahamat Abdoulaye; treatment of party members by authorities – February 2015
    • TCD101459.FE - A political party called the Action Forces for the Republic Front (Front des forces d'action pour la république, FAR/FFAR), particularly the treatment of its members and their families by the current government authorities – June 2006

 

    • TCD105364.FE - Whether the draft penal code was adopted; the situation of sexual minorities, including their treatment by the government and society, especially in N’Djamena, state protection and support services - Nov. 2015
    • TCD104910.E - Situation of sexual minorities, including legislation; treatment by government and society, including in N'Djamena; state protection and support services – July 2014

 

    • TCD106106.FE - Chad: Military service, including age of recruitment, the registration process and length of service; whether conscripts receive a notice from a recruitment office (bureau de recrutement); grounds for exemption and the possibility of alternative service – May 2018

 

    • TCD105337.E - Union of Forces for Democracy and Development (Union des forces pour la démocratie et le développement, UFDD), including origins, structure, ideology and activities; treatment of UFDD members and their families by authorities; whether state agents harass or abduct UFDD members in Saudi Arabia or members of their families – Oct. 2015
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    • TCD105503.FE - National Union of Chadian Students (Union nationale des étudiants tchadiens, UNET), including the arrest of its leader in 2015; outcome of his trial; circumstances of his release; demonstrations organized by UNET; reaction of authorities to demonstrations - April 2016
    • TCD105477.FE - Public servant strike in September 2015, especially in the Ministry of Territorial Administration and Decentralization; organizing union, duration, demands and development; government response, including arrests - Mar. 2016
    • TCD105068.FE - The National Union for Development and Renewal (Union nationale pour le développement et le renouveau, UNDR), including its composition, activities and regions of influence; the treatment of its members and sympathizers by authorities, including during the 2016 election campaign - Feb. 2015
United Kingdom Home Office
  • Country Policy and Information Note Chad: Opposition to the state - Mar. 2024

 

Intergovernmental Organization Reports

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Situation map with administrative divisions (regional level) on the distribution of forcibly displaced persons and the distribution of stateless persons (as of 31 July 2024) - Aug. 2024

 

Non-Government Organization Reports

Amnesty International
  • Amnesty International Reports: The state of the World’s Human Right - Apr. 2024, Mar. 2023
  • Anti-Corruption Fight in Peril – Crackdown on Anti-Corruption Human Rights Defenders in West and Central Africa - July 2023
  • Amnesty International:  Death Sentences and Executions - 2020
  • Human Rights in Africa: 2019
  • Strangled Budgets, Silenced Dissent: The Human Cost of Austerity Measures in Chad – July 2018
  • Between Recession and Repression - The Rising Cost of Dissent in Chad - Sept 2017
  • In the name of security? Arrests, detentions and restrictions on freedom of expression in Chad – July 2013
BBC
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Election World
Freedom House
Human Rights Watch
  • Human Rights Watch Annual Reports - 2024, 2023, 2022
  • “Worse Than Hell” Death and Torture at Chad’s Koro Toro Prison - Aug. 2024
  • Enabling a Dictator: The United States and Chad's Hissène Habré 1982-1990 - June 2016
  • The Risk of Return: Repatriating the Displaced in the Context of Conflict in Eastern Chad - June 2009
  • Early to War:  Child Soldiers in the Chad Conflict – July 2007
  • They Came Here to Kill Us:  Militia Attacks and Ethnic Targeting of Civilians in Eastern Chad – January 2007
  • The Victims of Hissène Habré Still Awaiting Justice - July 2005

Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre
  • Severity of internal displacement Report - Nov. 2021
International Crisis Group
  • Chad’s Transition: Easing Tensions Online - Dec. 2022
  • What Role for the Multinational Joint Task Force in Fighting Boko Haram? – July 2020
  • Chad: Defusing Tensions in the Sahel – Dec. 2018
World Health Organization

 

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Updated August 9, 2024