Rami, Tamara and kids, via ASKV. Photo by Catharina Gerritsen Blog

ā€œHet eindeloze wachten heeft mij kapot gemaaktā€ – 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 de…
/ Caia Vlieks, Research and Education Officer, Institute on Statelessness & Inclusion en Marlotte van Dael, Project Coƶrdinator Staatloosheid, ASKV Steunpunt Vluchtelingen
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Are parents of foundlings really ā€œunknownā€? - Avoiding statelessness under international nationality law

In popular understanding around the world, ā€œfoundlingsā€ are often imagined as abandoned babies found outside churches. In practice, this limited…
/ Mai Kaneko-Iwase, PhD (Law), Researcher, Faculty of Law, Maastricht University, the Netherlands*
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The Statelessness Case Law Database: LGBTQ+ families, surrogacy and the legal identity of unsanctioned babies

The new ENS Statelessness Case Law Database offers a lens through which we can observe how European laws deal with the reality of statelessness. In…
/ Katja Swider ENS Member, Assistant Professor of Migration Law at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
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Collaboration between academics and non-profits can help protect citizenship rights

Building bridges between academia and non-profit organisations through partnerships is a critical tool to protect the ā€˜right to have rights’. These…
/ Dr Rachel Pougnet, Senior Research Associate at the University of Bristol
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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…
/ GƔbor Gyulai, Hungarian Helsinki Committee, Chair of the ENS Steering Committee