Everything you need to know about statelessness

Poor Judgement, Bad Judgment

I was preparing to write a blog entry on the upcoming UNHCR NGO Consultations – on the importance of NGOs working on statelessness strengthening…

Addressing Statelessness in the Western Balkans – ENS and WeBLAN Joint Workshop

Praxis had the pleasure to organize a joint workshop of the European Network on Statelessness (ENS) and the Western Balkan Legal Aid Network (WeBLAN…

Roma statelessness in Italy – field research reveals long-awaited data

The Italian Council for Refugees (CIR), with the support of Open Society Foundations, issued its study summarizing the results of the project “In…

Europe’s Birth Registration Stumbling Blocks

It is well-established that one of the best ways of preventing statelessness is by ensuring universal birth registration of all children, regardless…

Innovations in Russian Legislation on Citizenship

Against the backdrop of crazy laws and bills, that have been passed or that are being currently examined by the State Duma of the Russian Federation…

Debating the ‘right to citizenship’

As part of a special programme of events to celebrate the European Year of the Citizen, the Maastricht Centre for Human Rights last week hosted a…

No Residence, No Rights

In many countries there is a circle of rights which are reserved only for their own nationals and that is one of the main facts that gives…

Access to Citizenship and its Impact on Integration: Growing attention on the role of the European Union in tackling statelessness?

Last Friday saw an event in Brussels organised by the Migration Policy Group (MPG) to present EUDO CITIZENSHIP’s latest research as part of an EU-…

An unexpected frontrunner - Tackling statelessness in Iraq

It may surprise some that in 2010, no country in the world achieved a larger reduction in statelessness than Iraq. A new constitution granting the…

Statelessness Status Determination in Italy: Quality Assurance Needed!

Previous posts have highlighted the importance of statelessness status determination procedures for providing protection to stateless persons (here…

Governments should act in the best interest of stateless children

Nils Muižnieks, the Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe, has today published a Human Rights Comment on the statelessness of…