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How far do citizenship laws in European Union Member States safeguard the children born there from statelessness?
Most European Union Member States participate in the international conventions concerning statelessness of 1954 and 1961, and have certain laws that…
Norwegian Government condemns stateless children to a state of legal limbo
A new proposal by the Norwegian Government will leave children born stateless in Norway who are habitually resident without a nationality until they…
Romania’s stateless children – still unknown, still invisible
When I started working on statelessness in 2009 I was told by more experienced colleagues from civil society organizations, as well as by public…
Jus Soli: A miraculous solution to prevent statelessness?
Granting nationality at birth to children born on the territory of a country – the “jus soli” principle – is often seen as an effective tool to…
Litigating Strategically: Stateless children born in the EU
Does a child born in the EU, who would have been an EU citizen had the Member State of birth complied with its international obligations, but who is…
Networking for change – Statelessness events in Strasbourg and making a difference?
Perhaps borne from a certain sense of frustration, many of us working on statelessness often feel compelled to emphasise the hidden nature of the…
Nationality Unknown? Promising steps, but still a risk of statelessness at birth in Hungary
Hungary is a state party to all statelessness-related international conventions, and as one of the few states in the world to operate a specific…
Working towards the eradication of statelessness in South Eastern Europe
Several contributors have reported on this website on statelessness in South Eastern Europe and on initiatives to strengthen civil registration and…
Roma statelessness in Italy – field research reveals long-awaited data
The Italian Council for Refugees (CIR), with the support of Open Society Foundations, issued its study summarizing the results of the project “In…
Governments should act in the best interest of stateless children
Nils Muižnieks, the Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe, has today published a Human Rights Comment on the statelessness of…