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- Ensuring nationality rights
- 1954 Statelessness Convention
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- 2015
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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…
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…
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…
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…