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 (external link) (International Labour Organization) database of national laws on labor, social security and related human rights

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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 (external link) (Buhle Dube and Alfred Magagula via GlobaLex)
• World Legal Information Institute: Swaziland (external link) (WorldLII)
• World Legal Materials from Africa: Swaziland (external link) (Cornell Legal Information Institute)

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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 (external link) (Amnesty International)
• International Religious Freedom Reports: Swaziland(U.S. Dept. of State)
• NEWS: BBC World Africa (external link)
• U.S. Embassy, Mbabane (U.S. Dept. of State)
• World Factbook: Swaziland (U.S. Central Intelligence Agency)
• World Hunger: Swaziland (external link) (World Food Programme)
• WWW DIRECTORIES / PORTALS: COUNTRY LINKS: Swaziland (external link) (Stanford University); Swaziland (external link) (Yahoo); WWW-VL African Studies: Swaziland (external link) (Columbia University)

For more information on Swaziland see:

• Global Legal Monitor: Swaziland

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Last Updated: 07/27/2012