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Birth registration of Roma children is becoming more difficult: a case study from Serbia
This piece draws on Praxis’ work providing free legal aid to people at risk of statelessness in Serbia. It details the case of Sara, a Roma child…
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Vicious circles of Roma statelessness in Serbia – A road map
The Roma community in Serbia continues to endure challenges when it comes to birth registration and citizenship acquisition. The risk of…
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Spotlighting Romani women’s activism and role in addressing statelessness in Europe
This blog is part of a collaboration between the European Network on Statelessness (ENS) and Romani women activists. Here, we want to draw attention…
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Romani women’s activism and role in addressing statelessness in Europe
The voices of Romani women are all too often missing from policy debates on statelessness and legal identity. ENS has come together with Romani women…
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Removing barriers to birth registration in Albania - No child in Europe should grow up stateless
"I cannot register them at school or any hospital. I have only the two boys. I want... I only want to register my two boys..."
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Roma in Serbia still denied birth certificates – ENS members take legal action to challenge register offices’ unlimited power
The purist in me imagines bureaucrats running around maternity wards, struggling to catch all the details (“Name? Mother’s name? Sorry, can you…
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Thoughts on Strategic Litigation: Can EU law prevent and reduce Roma statelessness in Europe?
The Court of Justice famous weighed in several years ago on the relevance of EU law to situations where EU citizens are made stateless (Case C-135/08…
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The case of Zoja - I am no longer legally invisible, but I remain invisible in the eyes of the state where I was born and where I have lived for 34 years
There is no doubt that the procedure for determining the time and place of birth established by the Law on Amendments to the Law on Non-Contentious…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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