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Preventing Statelessness among Migrants in North Africa and their Children: Birth registration and ‘legal identity’
“Legal identity” is all the rage in international policy circles. From the target set by the Sustainable Development Goals to “provide legal…
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Addressing statelessness in Europe’s refugee response and why more needs to be done
“During the initial registration, they wanted to register us as Bangladeshis. We all said no, we are not from there. They kept us there for five or…
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Citizenship Under Threat in Myanmar: A Shared Experience
“Why!? Our parents were citizens, but we didn’t get any citizenship cards! We are nationals, but we have to get permission like foreigners to go…
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How the Dutch immigration office prevented a strategic litigation case from unfolding in a decisive court decision for stateless individuals without legal stay
It all started in 2009. The then 22-year-old Nayif Negim travelled from Qatar, where he was born and raised, to Sweden. He had a valid visa to stay…
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Reflections from Madrid and galvanising action to solve statelessness in Europe
The launch of a new strategy is always a moment for looking both back and forwards. This week we published our new five-year strategic plan Solving…
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#HearItFromUs – Working with people affected by statelessness to inform and deliver our mission
The specific rights and experiences of stateless people and those affected by nationality problems are rarely acknowledged in the media and policy…
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Blockchain technology: the answer to securing legal identity?
Blockchain technology has been touted as a modern and elegant solution to the problems of evidencing and securing legal identity and for the creation…
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Deprivation of nationality on national security grounds in Australia: Part of a wider trend
Citizenship stripping on national security grounds is being used with increasing frequency across Europe. The so-called ‘foreign fighter’ phenomenon…
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Joint steps to end statelessness in the Commonwealth of Independent States
It is estimated that statelessness affects millions of people worldwide, including nearly 200,000 in the CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States)…
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Getting to 100%: New video on the importance of ending gender discrimination in nationality laws
On International Women’s Day earlier this month the Global Campaign for Equal Nationality Rights launched a short video that explains the harm…
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UK Home Office changes to Immigration Rules on statelessness: a mixed bag
The extension of stateless leave from 2.5 to 5 years is very welcome; other changes to the Immigration Rules relating to statelessness raise concerns.
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