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Submission to the UK Government Home Office Consultation on its ā€˜New Plan for Immigrationā€™

ENS urges the UK Government to ensure that any proposed amendment to the statelessness provision in British Nationality law does not make it moreā€¦
/ Submission
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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 thatā€¦
/ Merve Erdilmen (Doctoral Student, Department of Political Science, McGill University) and Iseult Honohan (Associate Professor Emeritus, School of Politics and International Relations, University College Dublin)
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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 theyā€¦
/ Marek Linha, Adviser at the Norwegian Organisation for Asylum Seekers (NOAS)
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Romaniaā€™s stateless children ā€“ 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 publicā€¦
/ Carolina Marin
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Jus Soli: A miraculous solution to prevent statelessness?

Granting nationality at birth to children born on the territory of a country ā€“ the ā€œjus soliā€ principle ā€“ is often seen as an effective tool toā€¦
/ Charline Becker, Hungarian Helsinki Committee
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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 isā€¦
/ Katja Swider, University of Amsterdam and RenƩ de Groot, Maastricht University
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Networking for change ā€“ 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 theā€¦
/ Chris Nash, Coordinator of the European Network on Statelessness
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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 specificā€¦
/ GƔbor Gyulai, Hungarian Helsinki Committee, Chair of the ENS Steering Committee
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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 andā€¦
/ Inge Sturkenboom, UNHCR
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Roma statelessness in Italy ā€“ field research reveals long-awaited data

The Italian Council for Refugees (CIR), with the support of Open Society Foundations, issued itsĀ study summarizing the results of the project ā€œInā€¦
/ Daniela Di Rado, Italian Council for Refugees (CIR)
Nils Muižnieks Blog

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 ofā€¦
/ Nils Muižnieks, Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe
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Taking stock of State pledges to tackle statelessness?

It is now just three months short of a year since UN High Commissioner for Refugees AntĆ³nio Guterres, hailed a ā€œquantum leapā€ in global efforts toā€¦
/ Chris Nash, International Protection Policy Coordinator at Asylum Aid