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A time for action - ENS launches campaign to protect stateless persons in Europe

Since its launch in June last year the European Network on Statelessness (ENS) has attracted  50 new member organisations in over 30 European…
/ Chris Nash, International Protection Policy Coordinator at Asylum Aid
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UK Supreme Court Delivers Victory Against Statelessness in Al-Jedda Case

Earlier this year, Laura Bingham contributed a blog for ENS on the much talked-about Al-Jedda case, in which the UK Supreme Court was asked to decide…
/ Simon Cox, Open Society Justice Initiative
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Statelessness, Human Rights and Development: It's time to Connect the Dots

The worlds of ‘human rights’ and ‘development’ have for many decades run parallel to each other, blindingly indifferent to the complementarity of…
/ Amal de Chickera
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Liverpool Law Clinic launches Statelessness project

On 2 October 2013, Liverpool Law Clinic marked the launch of its Statelessness project by hosting a free seminar on 'Statelessness - An overview of…
/ Frances Meyler and Dr Sarah Woodhouse, Co-Directors of the Liverpool Law Clinic
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Examining the human impact of legal identity documentation – one client at a time

Working on issues like citizenship, equality and inclusion – issues that both inform and are informed by ponderous social constructs like belonging…
/ Laura Bingham, legal officer for the equality/citizenship issue area of the Open Society Justice Initiative
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Romani Minorities Caught in-between: Impeded Access to Citizenship and de facto Statelessness in the Post-Yugoslav Space

Since the 2004 and 2007 EU enlargements, Roma became the EU largest minority, but also continue to be one of the most vulnerable groups of citizens…
/ Dr Julija Sardelić, CITSEE Research Fellow, School of Law, University of Edinburgh
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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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Difficulties in Establishing Nationality as a Consequence of Lost Evidence

Difficulties in proving nationality in Serbia arise even for those persons who have acquired citizenship at birth and had unimpeded access to rights…
/ MILIJANA TRIFKOVIC, LEGAL ANALYST, PRAXIS
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ENS blog going on holiday for 3 weeks but check out our new facebook page!

Just to let you know that the ENS blog will be going on holiday for three weeks but will resume from the beginning of September. Meanwhile you can…
/ ENS
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2014 Global Forum: A “meeting place” for people concerned about statelessness

In September 2014, Tilburg University and UNHCR will co-host the First Global Forum on Statelessness. Originally, when the idea of organising an…
/ Laura van Waas, Senior Researcher and Manager, Statelessness Programme
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Prevention of statelessness at birth – adequate nationality law but inconsistent implementation

In December 2011, Serbia acceded to the Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness. The Serbian Law on Citizenship had already been in accordance…
/ Milijana Trifkovic, Legal Analyst, Praxis
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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