Browse through our library of news, events, blogs, interviews and publications. You can also access our Statelessness Index and our Statelessness Case Law Database.
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Legal obstacles to obtaining a temporary residence permit for stateless people recognised in Ukraine
In 2021, the establishment of a statelessness determination procedure in Ukraine gave people who for a long time could not regularise their status an…
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Assisting stateless people trapped in Ukraine: report from the ground
The staff of R2P’s statelessness project have spent the last few weeks trying to reach their approximately 700 beneficiaries to assess their…
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Legal reform brings Ukraine closer to improving the lives of stateless people
Ukraine is on the verge of a decisive step that will bring the State closer to solving the problem of statelessness, by establishing in law a…
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Invisible to the state during the COVID-19 pandemic: stateless people in Ukraine
As soon as COVID-19 was recognized as a pandemic on 12 March 2020, the Ukrainian Government introduced a quarantine throughout the country. This…
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Ukraine’s most vulnerable children deserve a passport too
Children born in the occupied territories of Ukraine face a real risk of statelessness. According to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, only 43…
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Setting a blueprint for overcoming statelessness in Russia and Ukraine
Almost three decades have passed since the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the subsequent proclamation of independence by the Russian Federation…
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Using the #StatelessnessIndex as a teaching tool: enhancing the capacity of legal aid centres and improving the quality of legal assistance for stateless people
Comparative tools such as the #StatelessnessINDEX are not only useful for identifying deficiencies in national legal frameworks and assisting in the…
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New #RomaBelong research documents the effects of statelessness on Roma living in Ukraine and sets recommendation on how to tackle it
Even though Ukraine was among the first post-Soviet countries to adopt its own legislation on citizenship, the issue of statelessness continues to be…
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#RomaBelong – Tackling Roma statelessness in the Western Balkans and Ukraine
“I feel bad because I am from here but they are not giving me citizenship. I feel I don’t belong here. God forbid if I die, they will not bury me…
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They do exist: mapping statelessness in two pilot regions in Ukraine
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…
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The situation of stateless persons in Ukraine: is there light at the end of the tunnel?
“I am not a criminal. I am an educated person, I must have more rights. This detention looks like criminal detention but I am not a criminal”.
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