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Legally Invisible, Fighting for Health Care

Vela does not officially exist. Although she has lived in Macedonia all her life, neither she nor her four children have access to health services.…
/ Tamar Ezer is a Senior Program Officer in the Law and Health Initiative of the Open Society Public Health Program
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Supra-national citizenship: an increasingly powerful tool of protection… and exclusion

In May 2013, the European Commission announced its proposal for new EU legislation that would give every citizen of the European Union the right to…
/ Laura van Waas, Senior Researcher and Manager, Statelessness Programme
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UK Supreme Court Confronts Statelessness in Al-Jedda Case

On Thursday, June 27, the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom will hear arguments arising from an attempt to denationalize a man suspected of…
/ Laura Bingham is a legal officer working in the equality and citizenship issue area of the Open Society Justice Initiative
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Learning about statelessness in the Netherlands

This month, I was tasked with writing an introductory article for a special edition on statelessness of the journal “Asiel en Migrantenrecht” (Asylum…
/ Laura van Waas, Senior Researcher and Manager, Statelessness Programme
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Setting the bar higher - The UNHCR NGO Consultations and getting serious about eradicating statelessness

A couple of weeks ago on this site I wrote about the potential for this year’s UNHCR NGO Consultations to act as a springboard for the adoption of…
/ Chris Nash, International Protection Policy Coordinator at Asylum Aid
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Proving statelessness: evidential issues for refused asylum seekers

The introduction of a statelessness determination procedure in the UK in April 2013 was a welcome development. However, it has thrown into sharp…
/ Adrian Berry, Barrister, Garden Court Chambers, London
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The UNHCR NGO Consultations in Geneva – A springboard for the adoption of an International Day on Statelessness?

A recent blog on this site considered the non-emergence of statelessness as an issue, and a similar process of reflection has led the European…
/ Chris Nash, International Protection Policy Coordinator at Asylum Aid
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Poor Judgement, Bad Judgment

I was preparing to write a blog entry on the upcoming UNHCR NGO Consultations – on the importance of NGOs working on statelessness strengthening…
/ Amal de Chickera
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A Government Approach to Moving Statelessness Forward on the International Agenda

The last ENS blog entry dealt with the emergence of the issue of statelessness on the international agenda. Following this approach my contribution…
/ Dr. Tamás MOLNÁR - Head of Unit for Migration, Asylum and Border Management, Hungarian Ministry of Interior
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Moving Statelessness Forward on the International Human Rights Agenda

The word “statelessness” had not yet entered my vocabulary when I first arrived in Thailand during the spring of 2005. I had come to conduct…
/ Lindsey Kingston – Director, Institute for Human Rights & Humanitarian Studies at Webster University
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Litigation, legal aid & law clinics

To a large extent, the Statelessness Programme is a typical academic initiative and many of our activities are those traditionally associated with…
/ Laura van Waas, Statelessness Programme, Tilburg University
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Addressing the human insecurity of stateless people: Complimenting our legal advocacy with a development approach

Since the beginning of the year I have been working on trying to explore the role that development and humanitarian organisations are or could be…
/ Jason Tucker, University of Bath and visiting scholar Statelessness Programme, Tilburg Law School