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- 2014
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CESCR’s recommendation – Serbia to ensure effective access to personal documents for Roma and displaced persons, and in the meantime to facilitate their access to economic, social and cultural rights
In May 2014, the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights considered the Second Periodic Report of Serbia on the measures applied and…
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A stateless person, a refugee and an irregular migrant walk into a bar…
She gets a beer and waits for the world cup game to begin.
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Double jeopardy – Syria’s Stateless Palestinians
The Syrian refugee crisis has reached a tally of more than two million who have fled the country, leading the United Nations to characterize the…
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Act now and help protect stateless people across Europe!
When meeting a stateless person what is often so very striking is their understandable bewilderment about the situation they have been unlucky…
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A question of ‘if’ and ‘when’ is someone stateless
Farid is in UK immigration detention pending deportation. He has an Iranian passport that has expired. One month into his detention, he attempts to…
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UK House of Lords defeats Government on deprivation of citizenship leading to statelessness
On 19 November 2013 Amal de Chickera responded on this blog to the UK Home Secretary’s announcement that she would invite parliament to change UK…
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Questions of nationality and statelessness in Armenia
The Republic of Armenia was one of the first republics of the former Soviet Union to ratify the two UN Statelessness Conventions, in 1994. How far…
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Ibrahim’s story: Hope for how a stateless person can start a new life in Slovakia thanks to legislative changes
“He is the soul of our centre. The most honest, responsible and hardworking person we have here. And he does not drink any alcohol! He is a Muslim,…
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Networking for change – Statelessness events in Strasbourg and making a difference?
Perhaps borne from a certain sense of frustration, many of us working on statelessness often feel compelled to emphasise the hidden nature of the…
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Statelessness in Poland – Making the invisible visible?
The Halina Nieć Legal Aid Center (HNLAC), established in 2002 aims at promoting human rights by providing legal aid to those at risk of social…
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Statelessness, state-building and biopolitics: the bidūn of Kuwait
One of the biggest challenges that the current configuration of the world brings is the persistent collisions between a romanticised “global” and a…
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