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Supreme Court of the Netherlands Blog

What a judge cannot see: statelessness determination in the Netherlands

After years of waiting, the Netherlands is close to introducing a judicial procedure to determine statelessness, but without effective access to aā€¦
/ Katja Swider, Assistant Professor, Amsterdam Centre for Migration and Refugee Law, Free University of Amsterdam
Rami, Tamara and kids, via ASKV. Photo by Catharina Gerritsen Blog

ā€œHet eindeloze wachten heeft mij kapot gemaaktā€ ā€“ zullen de wetsvoorstellen staatloosheid ter discussie in Tweede Kamer deze week een oplossing bieden voor staatlozen in Nederland?

In aanloop naar het debat van 25 meiĀ in de Tweede Kamer over nieuwe ontwerpwetgeving betreffende staatloosheid analyseren onze Nederlandse leden deā€¦
/ Caia Vlieks, Research and Education Officer, Institute on Statelessness & Inclusion en Marlotte van Dael, Project Coƶrdinator Staatloosheid, ASKV Steunpunt Vluchtelingen
41 Publications

Submissions to the Human Rights Council at the 41st Session of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR)

ENS makes submissions to the Human Rights Council both independently andĀ in collaboration with our members and partners. These submissions were madeā€¦
/ Submission
Levi Meir Clancy Blog

Expert opinion: How the Netherlands, France and the UK are leaving children stranded at risk of statelessness in Iraq and Syria

Thousands of children associated with alleged ā€˜foreign fightersā€™ have been detained in Iraq and Syria since the territorial fall of the Islamic Stateā€¦
/ Professor RenĆ© DeGroot (Professor emeritus, Maastricht University), PhilomĆØne Franssen (Independent consultant), Alison Harvey (Barrister at No5 Chambers) and Dr Rachel Pougnet (University of Bristol)
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Joint submission to the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination ā€“ Netherlands

Joint submission to the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination ā€“ Netherlands
/ Submission
Children's toys Blog

A victory for human rights in Zhao v. the Netherlands (the ā€˜Denny caseā€™): Nationality from birth, without exceptions

In its first-ever decision on the right to nationality, issued in late December, the UN Human Rights Committee calls on the Netherlands to enact aā€¦
/ By Laura Bingham, Open Society Justice Initiative (OSJI) and Jelle Klaas, Public Interest Litigation Project of the International Commission of Jurists (NJCM)
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The lives of stateless refugees in the Netherlands

Based on the article ā€œHet lot van de staatloze vluchteling: ā€˜Niemand wil ons hebbenā€™ā€œ published in ā€˜Het Paroolā€™ on 28 January 2020, written by Josetā€¦
/ Marlotte van Dael, project coordinator & researcher at ASKV Refugee Support
Destroyed passport Blog

Citizenship deprivation: differential treatment or discrimination?

After just three months in office, the Netherlandā€™s Minister of Justice, Ferdinand Grapperhaus has already expressed his intention to strip two dualā€¦
/ Sangita Jaghai, PhD Candidate Tilburg Law School
27 Publications

Submissions to the Human Rights Council at the 27th Session of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR)

ENS makes submissions to the Human Rights Council both independently andĀ in collaboration with our members and partners. These submissions were madeā€¦
/ Submission
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Growing support for establishment of statelessness procedure in the Netherlands

At the end of 2011, UNHCR published the findings of a mapping project which looked at the situation of stateless people in the Netherlands. While theā€¦
/ Laura van Waas, Statelessness Programme