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Iceland’s accession to UN Statelessness Conventions reminds us how much more still needs to be done across Europe
On 26th January, Iceland acceded to the 1954 Convention Relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of…
A victory for human rights in Zhao v. the Netherlands (the ‘Denny case’): Nationality from birth, without exceptions
In its first-ever decision on the right to nationality, issued in late December, the UN Human Rights Committee calls on the Netherlands to enact a…
Will Malta’s accession to the 1954 Convention help change a culture of ‘outright exclusion’ of stateless persons?
Malta finally acceded to the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons on 11 December 2019 after numerous calls from civil society…
No Papers, No Prospects? Mapping Statelessness In the 21st Century
What causes statelessness? How can stateless people be protected? And can statelessness be eradicated?
Seizing new opportunities to address statelessness in the Dominican Republic
Following a decade of restrictive measures on migration and nationality matters, in late 2013 the Constitutional Tribunal in Santo Domingo issued a…
Joint Submission to the Committee on the Rights of the Child at the 88th Pre-Sessional Working Group - United Kingdom
This submission to the 88th Pre-Sessional Working Group of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) on the right of every child to acquire and…
Liberty, Equality, Fraternity…really? Why France’s forsaken “children of ISIS”* may grow up to view the French Republic’s values differently.
There are currently an estimated 300 French children stranded in various displacement camps in Northeastern Syria. Deprivation of nationality of one…
Joint Submission to the Human Rights Council at the 38th Session of the Universal Periodic Review - Denmark
This submission to the 38th Universal Periodic Review (UPR) regarding the right of every child to acquire a nationality and human rights challenges…
Joint Submission to the Human Rights Council at the 38th Session of the Universal Periodic Review - Latvia
This submission to the 38th Universal Periodic Review (UPR) on the human rights challenges regarding statelessness and the right to a nationality in…
Joint Submission to the Human Rights Council at the 38th Session of the Universal Periodic Review - Belgium
This submission to the 38th Universal Periodic Review (UPR) on the right to a nationality and human rights challenges pertaining to statelessness in…
Waiting for a nationality - Stateless in Spain
Meimuna, a young Sahrawi woman, had to wait three years before she was granted recognition as a stateless person. Whilst Spain’s law on asylum…