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What happens to people with no nationality in a public health crisis?
Stateless people – who lack any nationality - are excluded from many of the rights and protections afforded by States to their nationals. They are…
Blog
Investor citizenship must not be used as a remedy for statelessness
When I started to look into the sale of passports a decade ago, there had been hardly any academic research on the topic. Yet with the increasing…
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Citizenship Under Threat in Myanmar: A Shared Experience
“Why!? Our parents were citizens, but we didn’t get any citizenship cards! We are nationals, but we have to get permission like foreigners to go…
Interviews
Interview with Fernand de Varennes, UN Special Rapporteur on Minority Issues
Prof Fernand de Varennes is Dean of the Faculté de droit at the Université de Moncton. He was appointed UN Special Rapporteur on Minority Issues in…
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New #RomaBelong research documents the effects of statelessness on Roma living in Ukraine and sets recommendation on how to tackle it
Even though Ukraine was among the first post-Soviet countries to adopt its own legislation on citizenship, the issue of statelessness continues to be…
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Shining a light on the link between statelessness and minorities
The UN Special Rapporteur on Minorities, Fernand de Varennes, is currently in the process of compiling a thematic report on the link between…
Publications
Submission to the Special Rapporteur on Minority Issues – Statelessness: A Minorities Issue
This joint submission to the Special Rapporteur on Minority Issues by the European Roma Rights Centre (ERRC), the European Network on Statelessness (…
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How to square a circle: contemplating the shades of minority statelessness
In present times, ever more people dream of not being tied up to a certain state and becoming ‘citizens of everywhere’. This post-national dream…
Videos
Stateless Roma in Europe - VoxBox, European Parliament
Following a lunchtime event “Stateless Roma in Europe” on 29 Nov in the European Parliament, Soraya Post (MEP -S&D), Inge Sturkenboom (UNHCR) and…
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Denial and denigration: How discrimination feeds statelessness
Ethnic, national, religious and linguistic minorities make up a disproportionate number of the world’s stateless population. While statelessness may…
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Turkish despair: The stripping of Turkish citizenship by the state
Imagine your day being interrupted by a call from an old friend from home. You are delighted to hear his voice, and inquiries about mutual friends…
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