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Growing support for establishment of statelessness procedure in the Netherlands
At the end of 2011, UNHCR published the findings of a mapping project which looked at the situation of stateless people in the Netherlands. While the…
Denationalisation and the politics of citizenship in Zimbabwe
Statelessness as a human rights issue has been neglected across the globe. I tried hard to avoid beginning this post restating something which has…Finally an Important Step towards the Solution for the Legally Invisible and Persons at Risk of Statelessness in Serbia
After years of advocacy efforts in drawing the attention of the state to the extremely difficult position of persons who failed to subsequently…
Taking stock of State pledges to tackle statelessness?
It is now just three months short of a year since UN High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres, hailed a “quantum leap” in global efforts to…
Statelessness in Sweden - changes ahead?
Sweden was one out of only four countries that pledged during the 2011 UNHCR Ministerial Meeting to address statelessness through foreign policy (…
Refworld: A key resource on all things statelessness
Refworld, a leading online resource containing valuable legal, policy and academic information relating to asylum seekers, refugees and internally…
A Global Campaign to End Statelessness - The Time Has Come
For too long statelessness has remained a sleeper issue. This is surprising considering that UNHCR's latest statistics confirm 3.5 million stateless…
The UN adopts a new resolution on the right to nationality
Yesterday the UN’s Human Rights Council—a body responsible for promoting and protecting human rights around the world—passed an important resolution…