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“What do you mean by stateless?” – Arbitrary detention of stateless persons in Poland
In Poland statelessness doesn’t exist. Or so it would seem, for there are almost no official records of stateless persons. Those who are stateless…
States as a root cause of statelessness
What is the root cause of statelessness? There are many answers to this question – conflict of nationality laws, gender discrimination, persecution…
Stateless persons in Iceland, rarer than the Northern Lights?
Iceland, with a population of 322,000 people, is about 1500 kilometers away from its closest neighbor on the European continent. It is a land of…
Statelessness in Italy: What’s next?
“It is time to give voice to the strangers among strangers”. With these words, journalist Gad Lerner introduced the first public meeting on…
Finland – a champion in the making in addressing statelessness?
The UNHCR study Mapping Statelessness in Finland was launched on 18 November, following similar studies already published in a number of European…
A welcome first step towards tackling statelessness in Poland
This year Poland celebrates 25 years of freedom, an anniversary marked by the country’s first democratic vote, the end of communist regime and…
UK House of Lords defeats Government on deprivation of citizenship leading to statelessness
On 19 November 2013 Amal de Chickera responded on this blog to the UK Home Secretary’s announcement that she would invite parliament to change UK…Questions of nationality and statelessness in Armenia
The Republic of Armenia was one of the first republics of the former Soviet Union to ratify the two UN Statelessness Conventions, in 1994. How far…
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…
Statelessness in Poland – Making the invisible visible?
The Halina Nieć Legal Aid Center (HNLAC), established in 2002 aims at promoting human rights by providing legal aid to those at risk of social…
Statelessness in Malta
On 15th January 2014 UNHCR Malta held a Technical Roundtable meeting in order to present and discuss a study it prepared on the current situation of…