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Can international law offer protection to those at risk of climatic statelessness?
Scholarship on the impact of climate change on migration has tended to focus on refugee populations, but growing scholarship highlights the impending…
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Problems Faced by the Bidoons in the UK
The word ‘Bidoon’ refers to a diverse group of people in Kuwait who at the time of the country's move to independence were not given nationality.…
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New report confirms the urgency for Malta to revise its detention regime
New report “Protecting Stateless Persons from Arbitrary Detention in Malta” published today by ENS and aditus foundation warns that widespread use…
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No nationality, no rights – Statelessness affecting Dominicans of Haitian descent
Two years ago the Dominican Constitutional Court judgement 168/13 deprived hundreds of thousands of Dominicans of Haitian descent of their…
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Using the UN Human Rights Special Procedures to address statelessness
Non-governmental organisations (NGOs) have not to date made as much use as they could of the United Nations (UN) Special Procedures to raise and…
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Let’s talk about the army
How is the army relevant to statelessness? Conscription, a compulsory participation of citizens in their states’ military, still exists in over 60…
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The right to a legal identity or the right to a legal ID?
Proposed target 16.9 of the soon-to-be-adopted Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) reads: Provide legal identity to all, including birth…
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What (more) can the EU do to help address statelessness in its external human rights action?
As international interest in tackling statelessness grows, a question that repeatedly surfaces is: what role can X organisation, Y country or even Z…
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ENS launches Good Practices Guide on Statelessness Determination and Protection to Mark International Human Rights Day
The European Network on Statelessness (ENS) celebrates International Human Rights Day today, by launching its inaugural publication “Statelessness…
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Europe’s National Human Rights Institutions put statelessness on the agenda
Nationality is a human right. The right to a nationality was established in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and has been reaffirmed in…
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Statelessness, Human Rights and Development: It's time to Connect the Dots
The worlds of ‘human rights’ and ‘development’ have for many decades run parallel to each other, blindingly indifferent to the complementarity of…
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