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Surrogacy Arrangements: Can Article 8 of the ECHR Combat Child Statelessness?
On 31 August 2023, in the case of C. v. Italy, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) delivered a judgment concerning a four-year-old child born…
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French Administrative Supreme Court rejected a stateless status application from a Sahrawi applicant
France's highest administrative court has denied statelessness status to a Sahrawi-born individual residing in the country since 2013. The decision,…
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Shamima Begum: now stateless, but still deprived of her British citizenship
On 22 February 2023 the UK Special Immigration Appeals Commission upheld the UK Home Secretary’s decision to strip Shamima Begum of her citizenship.…
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What a judge cannot see: statelessness determination in the Netherlands
After years of waiting, the Netherlands is close to introducing a judicial procedure to determine statelessness, but without effective access to a…
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Celebrating progress in the protection of rainbow families, but more needs to be done
Since the day they were born, baby Sara and baby Sofia have been waiting to receive an identity document or a passport and are at risk of…
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Can international law offer protection to those at risk of climatic statelessness?
Scholarship on the impact of climate change on migration has tended to focus on refugee populations, but growing scholarship highlights the impending…
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Stateless people gain access to documentation in Russia
In August 2021, amendments to the Law on the Legal Status of Foreign Citizens in the Russian Federation and other legislation regulating the legal…
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The Statelessness Case Law Database: LGBTQ+ families, surrogacy and the legal identity of unsanctioned babies
The new ENS Statelessness Case Law Database offers a lens through which we can observe how European laws deal with the reality of statelessness. In…
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Russia’s Constitutional Court delivers questionable ruling on nationality stripping
Last month, Russia’s Constitutional Court ruled that there is no lack of clarity in legal provisions that make it possible to strip a person of their…
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Shamima Begum Supreme Court judgment: What are the implications for statelessness cases?
Last week, the UK Supreme Court ruled in the case of Begum v Secretary of State for the Home Department, in favour of the Secretary of State and…
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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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