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Equating the rights of stateless persons with refugees in Spain
The new law should raise the standard of protection for those applying for stateless status and equate it to Spain’s law on asylum which offers a…
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Statelessness: A blind spot on Austria’s human rights record
Austria is often praised by its official representatives as a model country concerning human rights protection, with a positive record on…
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Let’s talk about the army
How is the army relevant to statelessness? Conscription, a compulsory participation of citizens in their states’ military, still exists in over 60…
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Using the UPR to address statelessness
The United Nations Human Rights Council has a system of 'Universal Periodic Review' (UPR) which covers all member states of the UN. This means that…
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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…
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Hungarian Constitutional Court declares that lawful stay requirement in statelessness determination breaches international law
Until now, only lawfully staying persons could initiate a statelessness determination procedure in Hungary. After nearly eight years of struggle…
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Why Malta needs to accede to the UN Statelessness Conventions
“If I was granted citizenship now, it would be like having been inside this room for twelve years [referring to a very small and crammed counselling…
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Statelessness, state-building and biopolitics: the bidūn of Kuwait
One of the biggest challenges that the current configuration of the world brings is the persistent collisions between a romanticised “global” and a…
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Statelessness as a rising topic in EU external relations: Report on the Expert Meeting on Statelessness within the Eastern Partnership Panel on Migration and Asylum
The Hungarian Ministry of Interior, in co-operation with Moldova, organized an expert meeting in the framework of the European Union (EU) Eastern…
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