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“The endless waiting has destroyed me” – will the Statelessness Bills discussed in the Dutch Parliament this week bring a solution for stateless people in the Netherlands?
Ahead of the 25th May debate in the Dutch parliament on new draft legislation on statelessness, our Dutch members analyse the proposed laws, their…
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A multilingual toolkit on statelessness: how to identify, support and refer people at risk of statelessness
Across Europe, low levels of awareness of statelessness are widespread. For NGO workers, civil servants and refugee practitioners, this a lack of…
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Expert opinion: How the Netherlands, France and the UK are leaving children stranded at risk of statelessness in Iraq and Syria
Thousands of children associated with alleged ‘foreign fighters’ have been detained in Iraq and Syria since the territorial fall of the Islamic State…
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Collaboration between academics and non-profits can help protect citizenship rights
Building bridges between academia and non-profit organisations through partnerships is a critical tool to protect the ‘right to have rights’. These…
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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…
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Europe: Not yet a model for the world
The Old Continent – and the European Union in particular – likes to see itself as a model of democracy and human rights. But it is home to a…
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Understanding and addressing childhood statelessness in the UK: Introducing our new project
With a few notable exceptions, statelessness has so far received limited attention among child rights and migration advocates in the UK, yet figures…
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Statelessness in Portugal: law, policy and practice at a glance
In March, the Portuguese Refugee Council partnered with ENS to add a country profile page on Portugal to the Statelessness Index. Statelessness is…
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Birthright citizenship and children born in a conflict zone
As of 1 February 2020, an amendment to the Danish citizenship act means that a child born to a Danish parent who has unlawfully entered or stays in a…
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Windrush scandal exposes what may lie ahead for children born in the UK growing up without citizenship
Last year, we wrote about the many barriers to stateless children born in the UK exercising their right to register as British citizens. Those…
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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…
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