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Harmonising standards on statelessness determination in Europe
Nationality is the closest legal tie between a natural person and a state. Stateless individuals lack this bond. To provide stateless persons with…
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Statelessness in Europe
In Europe, statelessness occurs both among recent migrants and among people who have lived in the same place for generations. Despite the scale of…
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Let’s talk about the army
How is the army relevant to statelessness? Conscription, a compulsory participation of citizens in their states’ military, still exists in over 60…
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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…
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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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Statelessness in Ireland – international obligations and national reality
Ireland has adopted a somewhat incoherent approach in matters related to international conventions. Sometimes, Ireland will not sign or ratify a…
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Do stateless people have a right to die?
It was in October last year (2014) when Tereza, the long-term partner of my stateless client, came to my office and said to me: “Roman is in hospital…
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Stateless persons in Iceland, rarer than the Northern Lights?
Iceland, with a population of 322,000 people, is about 1500 kilometers away from its closest neighbor on the European continent. It is a land of…
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Hungarian Constitutional Court declares that lawful stay requirement in statelessness determination breaches international law
Until now, only lawfully staying persons could initiate a statelessness determination procedure in Hungary. After nearly eight years of struggle…
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Why Malta needs to accede to the UN Statelessness Conventions
“If I was granted citizenship now, it would be like having been inside this room for twelve years [referring to a very small and crammed counselling…
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ENS launches new report - Still Stateless, Still Suffering - Why Europe Must Act Now to Protect Stateless Persons
ENS has launched its report Still Stateless, Still Suffering – Why Europe Must Act Now to Protect Stateless Persons, which contains testimonies by…
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