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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,…
Stateless people at the border: the scenario in Spain
La versiĂłn en español de este blog está disponible aquĂ. In terms of support offered to stateless people, in many respects Spain has some of Europe…
Apátridas en la frontera, el caso español
En materia de apoyo ofrecido a las personas apátridas, España, en bastantes aspectos, cuenta con algunos ejemplos de buenas prácticas. Sin embargo,…
Without a nationality but not stateless: the recent judgment of the Swiss Federal Supreme Court in a case concerning the nationality status of a refugee originating from Western Sahara
In August 2021, the Swiss Supreme Federal Court, the highest judicial authority in Switzerland, issued a decision concerning the nationality status…
From colonial subjects to stateless refugees
The exact number of people who were forcibly displaced in the 1970s to the Tindouf refugee camps set up by the Algerian state is unknown, but…
Political limbo and statelessness in Africa’s last colony
The Saharawi people have been stateless for over 40 years since Western Sahara was occupied by Morocco in 1975. Danielle Smith, Founding Director of…