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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…
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Burden of proof in statelessness cases and the meaning of “by operation of its law”
The UK’s practice of depriving persons of their British citizenship when they are outside its territory belies its assurance, in the form of a duly…
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Mr Bilali and the uncertain country of origin – statelessness and subsidiary protection in the CJEU case of Bilali C-720/17
What does the case of Bilali in the Court of Justice of the European Union tell us about the responsibility of states to deal appropriately and…
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An Italian Recipe for Reducing Childhood Statelessness
The chefs spend their days cooking at the European Roma Rights Centre Ingredienti
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Roma in Serbia still denied birth certificates – ENS members take legal action to challenge register offices’ unlimited power
The purist in me imagines bureaucrats running around maternity wards, struggling to catch all the details (“Name? Mother’s name? Sorry, can you…
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Citizenship deprivation: How Britain took the lead on dismantling citizenship
“...although we may ... sometimes persecute people because they are foreign, the deeper truth is that we almost always make foreign those whom we…
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The jus sanguinis bias of Europe and what it means for childhood statelessness
Who is more Dutch: a child born to Dutch nationals in Australia (child A), or a child born to Australian nationals in the Netherlands (child B)?…
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Thoughts on Strategic Litigation: Can EU law prevent and reduce Roma statelessness in Europe?
The Court of Justice famous weighed in several years ago on the relevance of EU law to situations where EU citizens are made stateless (Case C-135/08…
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Litigating Strategically: Stateless children born in the EU
Does a child born in the EU, who would have been an EU citizen had the Member State of birth complied with its international obligations, but who is…
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Inter-American Court condemns unprecedented situation of statelessness in the Dominican Republic
On October 22nd, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (I-A Court) published its judgment in the Case of Expelled Dominican and Haitian people vs…
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Who are you? - Fraud, impersonation and loss of nationality without procedural protection
The UK divides persons who acquire British citizenship by fraud into two classes when seeking to secure their loss of such citizenship. Where the…
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