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Celebrating progress in the protection of rainbow families, but more needs to be done
Since the day they were born, baby Sara and baby Sofia have been waiting to receive an identity document or a passport and are at risk of…
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…
The Roma Belong Project: Supporting Roma, Ashkali and Egyptian communities in Kosovo
Roma, Ashkali and Egyptian communities in Kosovo are disproportionately affected by the risk of statelessness and its associated impact on accessing…
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and statelessness on Roma women and girls
In November 2021, the 8th International Roma Women’s Conference took place in a hybrid format, organised by the Council of Europe’s Roma and…
Citizenship stripping as alternative border control: Syrian counter-perspectives
This blog was first published by Routed Magazine in May 2021. We are re-posting it now to highlight the issues raised.
Seizing new opportunities to address statelessness in the Dominican Republic
Following a decade of restrictive measures on migration and nationality matters, in late 2013 the Constitutional Tribunal in Santo Domingo issued a…
North Macedonia takes important first step towards ending statelessness
On 3 January North Macedonia officially acceded to the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness, joining 74 other countries which have…
Join the feminist revolution in work to address statelessness
When black feminist theory was referenced on the podium at the closing plenary of the World Conference on Statelessness in the Hague last month, a…
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…
Using the UN Human Rights Special Procedures to address statelessness
Non-governmental organisations (NGOs) have not to date made as much use as they could of the United Nations (UN) Special Procedures to raise and…
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…