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It’s time to take action to protect stateless persons from arbitrary detention
The immigration detention of stateless persons is one of the silent tragedies of our globalised world that plays out behind closed doors, away from…
No nationality, no rights – Statelessness affecting Dominicans of Haitian descent
Two years ago the Dominican Constitutional Court judgement 168/13 deprived hundreds of thousands of Dominicans of Haitian descent of their…
Using the UN Human Rights Special Procedures to address statelessness
Non-governmental organisations (NGOs) have not to date made as much use as they could of the United Nations (UN) Special Procedures to raise and…
In pursuit of solutions for the stateless
In pursuit of solutions was the theme of last week’s 2015 UNHCR NGO Consultations, a focus that perfectly captures the motivation behind UNHCR’s #…
Using the UPR to address statelessness
The United Nations Human Rights Council has a system of 'Universal Periodic Review' (UPR) which covers all member states of the UN. This means that…
The right to a legal identity or the right to a legal ID?
Proposed target 16.9 of the soon-to-be-adopted Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) reads: Provide legal identity to all, including birth…