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Not a level playing field - Statelessness Determination in the EU
All European Union States but four (Malta, Poland, Cyprus, and Estonia) have ratified the 1954 Convention relating to the status of stateless…
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Delayed lives — the hidden misery of stateless people locked up in the UK
This blog was first published by Open Democracy in November 2016, We are re-posting it now to highlight the issues raised - which will be addressed…
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Statelessness in Georgia – how to make good laws better
“We know our laws and policies on statelessness are good, but we want them to be perfect, tell us how we do that” – representative from Georgian…
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The situation of stateless persons in Ukraine: is there light at the end of the tunnel?
“I am not a criminal. I am an educated person, I must have more rights. This detention looks like criminal detention but I am not a criminal”.
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Counting down the days in detention: the situation of stateless persons in Bulgaria
Tarek, a stateless person originating from Afghanistan, is counting down the days till 27 November. It's when he will have spent 18 months in…
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Facing a lifetime of uncertainty: Protecting stateless persons from arbitrary detention in the UK
“There are no human rights in the United Kingdom”, said Yassin, a stateless Bidoon from Kuwait in his late twenties. He came to the UK in 2007 to…
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Bulgaria is introducing a statelessness determination procedure. Or is it?
On the surface, yes, Bulgaria is for the first time introducing a statelessness determination procedure in its national legislation. But scratch a…
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Ireland’s ad-hoc approach is failing stateless persons: Dublin seminar highlights shortfalls and need for formal procedures
In December 2015, the Council of the European Union’s Conclusions on Statelessness invited the European Commission to launch exchanges of good…
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Statelessness determination procedure in Italy: who bears the burden of proof?
The Italian Court of Cassation has recently ruled on a case concerning the statelessness determination procedure (Court of Cassation No. 4262 of 3…
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Finland – a champion in the making in addressing statelessness?
The UNHCR study Mapping Statelessness in Finland was launched on 18 November, following similar studies already published in a number of European…
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Every downside has its upside: run-up to a statelessness determination procedure in the Netherlands?
On 9 July 2014, the loss to Argentina signalled the end of another period of patriotic sentiments in the Netherlands.
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