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Using the Statelessness Index as a tool to help secure law and policy reform in Serbia

Is my country party to international conventions dealing with statelessness? Is there any data on the stateless population? Is there a procedure to…
/ Milan Radojev, Status and Socioeconomic Rights Programme Coordinator, Praxis
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Using the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child to help protect children from statelessness in Serbia

(A version of this article was first published in the Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion’s the  World's Stateless 2017 report.)
/ Vuk Raicevic, Legal Analyst, Praxis
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Legally Invisible in Serbia

Just outside the front door of their shack in an informal Roma settlement in central Belgrade, Serbia, 15-year-old Deni and his six brothers and…
/ GREG CONSTANTINE, DOCUMENTARY PHOTOGRAPHER
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The case of Valjbona and her children - lack of birth registration leaves many Roma children in a situation of undetermined nationality for an extended period of time

“Once I acquire nationality, my children will finally be able to go to the doctor’s when necessary and I will not have to pay for medicines. Nearby…
/ Ivanka Kostic, Executive Director, Praxis
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Abandoned by parents, neglected by the State

„...I just want to get an ID card, like other citizens, and then register the birth of my children. My greatest wish is that my children go to…
/ Marija Drazovic, Legal Advisor, Praxis
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Prevention of statelessness at birth – adequate nationality law but inconsistent implementation

In December 2011, Serbia acceded to the Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness. The Serbian Law on Citizenship had already been in accordance…
/ Milijana Trifkovic, Legal Analyst, Praxis
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No Birth Registration, No Nationality, No Documents, No Rights

Estimates suggest that there are several thousand people living in Serbia today, predominantly Roma, both children and adults, displaced and…
/ Ivanka Kostic, Executive Director, Praxis