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"Enough talk, we need concrete proposals" - Protecting the right to nationality in Macedonia
In November 2017 the newly elected Prime minister of Republic of Macedonia Mr. Zoran Zaev announced that his government will adopt a comprehensive…
“You must belong to a state, you did not just fall from the sky!”
UNHCR launched the #IBelong campaign in November 2014 with the goal to end statelessness by 2024. Within this context, the UNHCR Office for…
Not just a simple twist of fate: statelessness in Lithuania and Latvia
Statelessness seems to just happen to people, doesn’t it? Quirky circumstances of birth, unexpected conflict causing people to migrate, state…
In praise of the 1961 Statelessness Convention
It is a lot better to have a stateless person’s travel document than to be undocumented.The appalling mistreatment of a stateless human rights activist, barriers to British citizenship, and the power to bring change
Persecution and statelessness inflicted by the Bahraini Government Sayed Alwadaei is a soft-spoken but determined man from Bahrain. There is…
A rights-based approach to addressing statelessness
To have a right to something - say, food - it not just about having enough of that: a slave can be well nourished
Windrush scandal exposes what may lie ahead for children born in the UK growing up without citizenship
Last year, we wrote about the many barriers to stateless children born in the UK exercising their right to register as British citizens. Those…
The normalisation of exceptional powers: deprivation of nationality in France and in the UK
It is now widely accepted that the post 9/11 context prompted a dilution of the rights attached to citizenship.
Groundbreaking Arab League declaration heightens global momentum to end gender discrimination in nationality laws
Amid the tragedy and uncertainty of today’s global challenges, there have been several important developments in the fight for gender equality in the…