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)
Executive
- Monarchy; Prime Minister; Cabinet
Judicial
- COURTS: High Court; Court of Appeal
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
Legal Guides
- Global Legal Information Catalog: Swaziland (Law Library of Congress) provides bibliographic information on materials in our reference collection
- Global Legal Monitor: Swaziland (Law Library of Congress)
- Multinational Reference (Law Library of Congress)
- The Law and Legal Research in Swaziland (Buhle Dube and Alfred Magagula via GlobaLex)
- World Legal Information Institute: Swaziland (WorldLII)
- World Legal Materials from Africa: Swaziland (Cornell Legal Information Institute)
General Sources
- 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)
- Human Rights in Swaziland (Amnesty International)
- International Religious Freedom 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 (Stanford University); Swaziland (Yahoo); WWW-VL African Studies: Swaziland (Columbia University)
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Last Updated: 01/29/2012
