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Why Malta needs to accede to the UN Statelessness Conventions

“If I was granted citizenship now, it would be like having been inside this room for twelve years [referring to a very small and crammed counselling

/ Sophia Soares, UNHCR
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Statelessness in Italy: What’s next?

“It is time to give voice to the strangers among strangers”. With these words, journalist Gad Lerner introduced the first public meeting on

/ Héléna Behr and Silvia Loschiavo. UNHCR Regional Representation for Southern Europe
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Adding the voice of National Human Rights Institutions towards ending statelessness in Europe

‘A baby is born stateless every ten minutes’. This powerful image underlines UNHCR’s ‘I belong’ campaign, launched in November 2014, and aimed at

/ Petra Baeyens, European Network of National Human Rights Institutions (ENNHRI)
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Launch of ENS Campaign - None of Europe’s children should be stateless

He has your infectious smile and your partners bright, warm eyes. He shares your jovial nature and your partner’s ease in connecting with people and

/ Laura van Waas, Campaign Consultant and member of the ENS Advisory Committee
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Litigating Strategically: Stateless children born in the EU

Does a child born in the EU, who would have been an EU citizen had the Member State of birth complied with its international obligations, but who is

/ Katja Swider, University of Amsterdam and René de Groot, Maastricht University
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#IBELONG in Europe - UNHCR launches campaign to end statelessness

“You are a shadow here. Just a shadow. You pass by and no-one sees you. You have no rights” – Nusret, a stateless man in Montenegro UNHCR this week

/ Vincent Cochetel, UNHCR, Director Bureau for Europe
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Inter-American Court condemns unprecedented situation of statelessness in the Dominican Republic

On October 22nd, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (I-A Court) published its judgment in the Case of Expelled Dominican and Haitian people vs

/ Francisco Quintana, Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL)
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Statelessness among children in Latvia: current situation, challenges and possible solutions

Although about 96% of all permanently residing children in Latvia are Latvian citizens, the statelessness among non-citizens’ children has attracted

/ Svetlana Djackova, Latvian Centre for Human Rights
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Europe must not allow its children to grow up without a nationality

How do you explain statelessness to a child? Yes, you were born here. And yes, mummy comes from here. And yes, daddy comes from here. And yes, you

/ Laura van Waas, Senior Researcher and Manager of the Statelessness Programme, Tilburg University
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Statelessness, state-building and biopolitics: the bidƫn of Kuwait

One of the biggest challenges that the current configuration of the world brings is the persistent collisions between a romanticised “global” and a

/ Ines Fernandes, School of Oriental and African Studies
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Nationality Unknown? Promising steps, but still a risk of statelessness at birth in Hungary

Hungary is a state party to all statelessness-related international conventions, and as one of the few states in the world to operate a specific

/ GĂĄbor Gyulai, Hungarian Helsinki Committee, Chair of the ENS Steering Committee
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Every child belongs

When raising awareness of the importance of birth registration, organisations like Plan and UNICEF have done a good job of devising compelling

/ Laura van Waas, Senior Researcher and Manager, Statelessness Programme, Tilburg University