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Events
Addressing Statelessness in Europe: Closing Protection Gaps and Realising Everyone’s Right to a Nationality
On 8-9 June 2023, we're hosting a pan-regional conference to raise awareness, build alliances and garner greater momentum towards Europe fully living…
Blog
The long shot: statelessness and the US visa lottery
Many people, including me, won a ‘nationality lottery’ at birth. We were born with automatic citizenship of our country of birth, or with the same…
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 a…
Blog
Rejected by the homeland: Stateless Libyan Tuareg and the role of migration
This blog outlines the situation of stateless Tuareg in Libya. It is based on a preliminary study conducted through interviews with sixteen Libyan…
Blog
Preventing Statelessness and Nationality Loss in the context of Climate Change
This week, a pioneering report was launched that presents the first in-depth analysis of the legal risks of statelessness and nationality loss in the…
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“Het eindeloze wachten heeft mij kapot gemaakt” – 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 mei in de Tweede Kamer over nieuwe ontwerpwetgeving betreffende staatloosheid analyseren onze Nederlandse leden de…
Blog
We need to talk about the problem of citizenship
For the most part, the contemporary world is centred on the assumption that everyone has some form of citizenship. This creates problems for people…
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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 ‘right to have rights’. These…
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Will Malta’s accession to the 1954 Convention help change a culture of ‘outright exclusion’ of stateless persons?
Malta finally acceded to the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons on 11 December 2019 after numerous calls from civil society…
Publications
Joint Submission to the Committee on the Rights of the Child at the 88th Pre-Sessional Working Group - United Kingdom
This submission to the 88th Pre-Sessional Working Group of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) on the right of every child to acquire and…
Videos
Ending statelessness is possible, but we cannot do it without the people affected by it
Currently, more than half a million people are stateless in Europe. Nobody understands the impact of living without a nationality better than…
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