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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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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