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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…
/ Marina Lourenço
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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 (…
/ Sebastian Kohn
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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…
/ This explanatory text about Refworld is courtesy of UNHCR's Statelessness Unit, Geneva
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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…
/ Katrine Thomasen & Sebastian Kohn
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Statelessness in the Tower of Babel – How do you say stateless in your language?

“Stateless persons have no nationality.” This statement may sound evident for most readers of this blog and you are probably just asking yourself…
/ Gábor Gyulai
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Gender discrimination and statelessness in Europe

Discrimination is one of the major underlying causes of statelessness around the world. An unequal right for men and women to acquire, retain or…
/ Laura van Waas, Statelessness Programme
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ECHR and citizenship: The case of Genovese v. Malta

The European Court of Human Rights today issued a decision in the case of Genovese v. Malta. It found that there had been a violation of article 14…
/ Sebastian Köhn