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Stateless in the Netherlands: Stuck in paradise?

The Netherlands is a splendid country in many ways. Despite amusing political bickering, it’s a stable democracy. Despite the occasional judicial…
/ Karel Hendriks, Statelessness research consultant
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A growing voice - Network building in Brussels and at UNHCR's NGO Consultations in Geneva

Following the launch of our website we have been working hard to spread the word about the European Network on Statelessness (ENS), including…
/ Chris Nash, International Protection Policy Coordinator at Asylum Aid
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The UN adopts a new resolution on the right to nationality

Yesterday the UN’s Human Rights Council—a body responsible for promoting and protecting human rights around the world—passed an important resolution…
/ Katrine Thomasen & Sebastian Kohn
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While the World Washes its Hands…

Since 8 June 2012, Rakhine State of Western Myanmar has been in flames. Hundreds of stateless Rohingya have been killed, disappeared, displaced and…
/ Amal de Chickera
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The Birth of the European Network on Statelessness

A year which ended with UN High Commissioner for Refugees, António Guterres, hailing a “quantum leap” in global efforts to tackle statelessness was…
/ Chris Nash, International Protection Policy Coordinator at Asylum Aid
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No Birth Registration, No Nationality, No Documents, No Rights

Estimates suggest that there are several thousand people living in Serbia today, predominantly Roma, both children and adults, displaced and…
/ Ivanka Kostic, Executive Director, Praxis
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Gender discrimination and statelessness in Europe

Discrimination is one of the major underlying causes of statelessness around the world. An unequal right for men and women to acquire, retain or…
/ Laura van Waas, Statelessness Programme
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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