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“The applicant, a stateless person” – Roma, statelessness and the European Court of Human Rights

On 15 June 2017, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), communicated the case HASANI v. the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (Application…
/ Ivan Kochovski, Member of Macedonian Young Lawyers Association
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The jus sanguinis bias of Europe and what it means for childhood statelessness

Who is more Dutch: a child born to Dutch nationals in Australia (child A), or a child born to Australian nationals in the Netherlands (child B)?…
/ Caia Vlieks (Tilburg University) and Katja Swider (University of Amsterdam)
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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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Litigating Strategically: Stateless children born in the EU

Does a child born in the EU, who would have been an EU citizen had the Member State of birth complied with its international obligations, but who is…
/ Katja Swider, University of Amsterdam and René de Groot, Maastricht University
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Kim v Russia – The unlawful detention of stateless persons in immigration proceedings

The recent training on statelessness provided on 24 October 2014 by the European Network on Statelessness and UNHCR in conjunction with Memorial in…
/ Adrian Berry, Barrister, Garden Court Chambers, London
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Litigating for Statelessness Determination: The Promise of the European Convention on Human Rights?

An array of issues could potentially be pursued through litigation to improve the situation of stateless persons in Europe.
/ Caia Vlieks, Tilburg University
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An Obligation for Statelessness Determination under the European Convention on Human Rights?

This ENS discussion paper examines some important articles of the ECHR in order to assess whether an obligation to determine statelessness can be…
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Detention of a stateless refugee

Stateless people have no country that accepts them as their own. Combine that with a situation of irregular stay, and one has a potentially…
/ Maxim Ferschtman is Senior Legal Adviser on equality and citizenship at the Open Society Justice Initiative
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Litigating for the stateless – a bumpy, but steady road upwards

Ever wonder why there are so few cases on statelessness before international supervisory bodies and regional courts? The task of browsing through…
/ Maxim Ferschtman is Senior Legal Adviser on equality and citizenship at the Open Society Justice Initiative
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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…
/ Laura van Waas, Senior Researcher and Manager of the Statelessness Programme, Tilburg University
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European Pro Bono Award and its implications for statelessness

Last week the Peace Institute Slovenia (a member of the European Network on Statelessness) along with the Italian attorneys Andrea Saccucci and Anton…
/ Dr. Neža Kogovšek Šalamon, Peace Institute Director
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ECHR and citizenship: The case of Genovese v. Malta

The European Court of Human Rights today issued a decision in the case of Genovese v. Malta. It found that there had been a violation of article 14…
/ Sebastian Köhn