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Swaziland
Kingdom of Swaziland / Umbuso weSwatini

Constitution | Executive | Judicial | Legislative | Legal Guides | General Sources

Constitution

  • None; constitution of 6 September 1968 was suspended 12 April 1973; a new constitution was promulgated 13 October 1978, but was not formally presented to the people; since then a few more outlines for a constitution have been compiled under the Constitutional Review Commission (CRC), but so far none have been accepted - from World Factbook: Swaziland (U.S. Central Intelligence Agency)

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Executive

  • Monarchy; Prime Minister; Cabinet

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Judicial

  • COURTS: High Court; Court of Appeal

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Legislative

  • PARLIAMENT: Libandla (Parliament), consists of the Senate and the House of Assembly
  • NATLEX - Swaziland (International Labour Organization) database of national laws on labor, social security and related human rights

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Legal Guides

  • Global Legal Monitor: Swaziland (Law Library of Congress)
  • Multinational Reference (Law Library of Congress)
  • Multinational Collections Database: Swaziland (Law Library of Congress) provides bibliographic information on materials in our reference collection
  • The Law and Legal Research in Swaziland (Buhle Dube and Alfred Magagula via GlobaLex) September/October 2007
  • World Legal Information Institute: Swaziland (WorldLII)
  • World Legal Materials from Africa: Swaziland (Cornell Legal Information Institute)

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General Sources

  • Portals to the World: Swaziland (Library of Congress)
  • Background Note: Swaziland (U.S. Dept. of State)
  • Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments: Swaziland (U.S. Central Intelligence Agency)
  • Consular Information Sheet: Swaziland (U.S. Dept. of State)
  • Country Information: Swaziland (U.S. Dept. of State)
  • Country Reports on Human Rights Practices: Swaziland (U.S. Dept. of State)
  • Governments on the WWW: Swaziland (Gunnar Anzinger)
  • Human Rights in Swaziland (Amnesty International)
  • International Religious Freedom Annual Reports: Swaziland (U.S. Dept. of State)
  • NEWS: BBC World Africa
  • U.S. Embassy, Mbabane (U.S. Dept. of State)
  • World Factbook: Swaziland (U.S. Central Intelligence Agency)
  • World Hunger: Swaziland (World Food Programme)
  • WWW DIRECTORIES / PORTALS: COUNTRY LINKS: Swaziland (Google); Swaziland (Stanford University); Swaziland (Yahoo); WWW-VL African Studies: Swaziland (Columbia University)

For more information on Swaziland see:

  • Global Legal Monitor: Swaziland

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