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Citizenship for sale – At a cost stateless people can ill afford
5 October 2017 | Cynthia Orchard, Legal Policy Officer at Asylum AidStateless people in the UK face enormous hurdles in the road to becoming British citizens. One of those barriers is the extraordinarily high cost of acquiring British citizenship.
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The Charter of Fundamental Rights and the protection of stateless people in the EU: a dormant giant?
28 September 2017 | Dr Tamas MOLNAR, legal research officer on asylum, migration and borders European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (Vienna)*The EU Charter: a robust normative layer
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They do exist: mapping statelessness in two pilot regions in Ukraine
21 September 2017 | Ostap Tymchiy, Migration expert at The Right to Protection (in partnership with HIAS)Ukraine is most likely a host country to one of the largest populations of stateless people in Europe. Most likely, because nobody knows the exact number of stateless people living in Ukraine. The data from the last all-Ukrainian Census collected in 2001 is out of date. Since then the annexation of Crimea and the armed conflict in the East of Ukraine have put many additional people at risk of statelessness.
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Understanding statelessness: what are the different contexts of statelessness in Europe
14 September 2017 | Caia Vlieks, PhD Researcher at Tilburg UniversityOver the years, ENS has collected numerous testimonies of stateless people from all over Europe. Their stories are very personal, but often point to similarities in their experiences of isolation and legal limbo.
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Avoiding detention of stateless persons: UNHCR's new tool for identification and enhanced protection of stateless persons in detention
7 September 2017 | Melanie Khanna, Chief of Statelessness Section and Madeline Garlick, Senior Legal Coordinator and Head of Protection Policy Legal Advice Section, Division of International Protection, UNHCR"Across the world, stateless persons face violations of their right to liberty and security. In some instances they have been in detention for years, not because they have committed a crime, but solely because they are not allowed to stay in the country and have nowhere else to go. If States don’t identify stateless persons and acknowledge their protection needs, such persons are at risk of repeated and prolonged detention. It is essential that States prevent and end this serious human rights violation.”
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Blog Summer Break
9 August 2017 | ENS SecretariatThe ENS blog will be taking a summer break for a few weeks. We'll be back in September.
In the meantime, you can follow our updates on Twitter and Facebook.
Wishing all of our followers happy and restful summer holidays (from a very rainy London).
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Turkish despair: The stripping of Turkish citizenship by the state
3 August 2017 | Amal de Chickera, Institute on Statelessness and InclusionThis blog was first published by Thomson Reuters Foundation News on Friday 21 July 2017.
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Spotlight on childhood statelessness in Austria
27 July 2017 | Nina Murray, European Network on Statelessness, Carolin Seifriedsberger, DLA Piper, and Esther Ludwig, Diakonie FlüchtlingsdienstToday, at a launch event in Vienna, DLA Piper, Diakonie Flüchtlingsdienst and the European Network on Statelessness (ENS) will publish a report that sheds light on the issue of childhood statelessness in Austria.
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Not a level playing field - Statelessness Determination in the EU
20 July 2017 | Katia Bianchini, Researcher at the Max Planck InstituteAll European Union States but four (Malta, Poland, Cyprus, and Estonia) have ratified the 1954 Convention relating to the status of stateless persons (the 1954 Convention), which is the cornerstone of the international protection framework for the protection of stateless persons.
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#LockedInLimbo – The Netherlands can stop the detention of stateless persons
13 July 2017 | Marlotte van Dael, ASKV Refugee Support and Caia Vlieks, Tilburg UniversityAfter being detained for the fifth time, Ivan from the former Soviet Union is out on the streets again. Or was this the sixth time in detention? He has lost count.
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