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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…
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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…
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Should nationality have a “minimum content”? – Italian Supreme Court passes landmark decision
With only a handful of countries operating a statelessness determination procedure, it is not very often that a national court passes a judgment of…
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CESCR’s recommendation – Serbia to ensure effective access to personal documents for Roma and displaced persons, and in the meantime to facilitate their access to economic, social and cultural rights
In May 2014, the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights considered the Second Periodic Report of Serbia on the measures applied and…
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Double jeopardy – Syria’s Stateless Palestinians
The Syrian refugee crisis has reached a tally of more than two million who have fled the country, leading the United Nations to characterize the…
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A question of ‘if’ and ‘when’ is someone stateless
Farid is in UK immigration detention pending deportation. He has an Iranian passport that has expired. One month into his detention, he attempts to…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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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