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Unlocking limbo: how a culture change and the application of existing norms can reduce arbitrary detention

Seven years is a very long time. In the last seven years, many things have happened in my life that have shaped me in ways I cannot begin to grasp.…
/ Amal de Chickera, Co-Director of the Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion
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Why we need a strong voice to stop stateless people ending up #LockedInLimbo

I very much welcomed the opportunity to speak at the recent European Network on Statelessness (ENS) conference in Budapest on 4-5 May which launched…
/ Manlio Di Stefano, Member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe
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Alexander’s story - taking action to prevent the arbitrary detention of stateless people

In 2015 award-winning Greg Constantine visited Malta as part of his photographic journey around Europe, documenting the lives of detained stateless…
/ Neil Falzon, Director of aditus foundation
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Protecting Stateless Persons from Arbitrary Dentention in Europe

This is blog is a repost of the foreword to the newly published report “Protecting stateless persons from arbitrary detention: An Agenda for Change…
/ Nils MuiĹľnieks, Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights
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Delayed lives — the hidden misery of stateless people locked up in the UK

This blog was first published by Open Democracy in November 2016, We are re-posting it now to highlight the issues raised - which will be addressed…
/ Chris Nash, Director - European Network on Statelessness
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The situation of stateless persons in Ukraine: is there light at the end of the tunnel?

“I am not a criminal. I am an educated person, I must have more rights. This detention looks like criminal detention but I am not a criminal”.
/ Ostap Tymchiy, Advocate, Expert on migration at The Right to Protection in partnership with HIAS
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Counting down the days in detention: the situation of stateless persons in Bulgaria

Tarek, a stateless person originating from Afghanistan, is counting down the days till 27 November. It's when he will have spent 18 months in…
/ Dr. Valeria Ilareva, Foundation for Access to Rights - FAR
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Facing a lifetime of uncertainty: Protecting stateless persons from arbitrary detention in the UK

“There are no human rights in the United Kingdom”, said Yassin, a stateless Bidoon from Kuwait in his late twenties. He came to the UK in 2007 to…
/ Katia Bianchini, ENS researcher & Max Planck Institute for Religious Studies and Ethnic Diversity (Goettingen, Germany)
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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…
/ François Crépeau, UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants
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Protecting stateless persons from arbitrary detention in the Netherlands

Evidence shows that detention of stateless people is a worrying trend across Europe. Against this backdrop, the European Network on Statelessness…
/ Karel Hendriks, ASKV
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Strategically litigating statelessness: ENS’s three-year strategy

The European Network on Statelessness (ENS) is launching its three-year litigation strategy, based on the belief that part of the fight to end…
/ Adam Weiss, European Roma Rights Centre
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The Road to Dignity Beyond Status: Responding to the Secretary-General’s Synthesis Report on the Post-2015 Agenda

Today’s world is a troubled world: one in turmoil and turbulence, with no shortage of painful political upheavals. Societies are under serious…
/ Tendayi Bloom, United Nations University Institute on Globalization, Culture and Mobility