Thematic Focus: Statelessness

Events & opportunities:

Human Rights Day 2013, Tilburg, Neth., 10 December 2013 [info]
- This year's program focuses on statelessness.

Short Course: Statelessness and the Rights of the Child, Geneva, 6-7 February 2014 [info]
- Apply by 15 December 2013.

CFP: "Situating Statelessness: Anthropological Perspectives," panel at joint IUAES/JASCA, Chiba City, Japan, 15-18 May 2014 [info]
- The general CFP is available here; submit a proposal by 9 January 2014.

Publications:

"Nationality Matters," 5 Years on: How Far Statelessness has Travelled (Statelessness Programme Blog, Dec. 2013) [text]

No Country of One’s Own: An Advisory Report on Treaty Protection for Stateless Persons in the Netherlands (Dutch Advisory Committee on Migration Affairs, Dec. 2013) [Eng. summary] [Eng. text]
- Full report available in Dutch; see also related blog post.

Sharing Expertise: A New Wave of Statelessness Trainers in Europe (ENS Blog, Dec. 2013) [text]

Stateless Aesthetics: Feminist Human Rights Discourse on Statelessness in Kuwait, Presentation at 8th International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences, Prague, 30 July-1 Aug. 2013 [access]
- Analysis of Refugees International's 2011 report on how gender discrimination in Kuwait creates statelessness; follow link for video.

Statelessness and the Role of National Human Rights Institutions (SSRN, Nov. 2013) [text]
- See also related blog post.

Statelessness Determination and the Protection Status of Stateless Persons: A Summary Guide of Good Practices and Factors to Consider when Designing National Determination and Protection Mechanisms (European Network on Statelessness, Dec. 2013) [text]
- See also related blog post.

Commentary re. Home Secretary Theresa May's proposal to strip terrorist suspects of British citizenship:

- May Plans to Make British Citizens Stateless (IRR, Nov. 2013) [text]
- Stateless Terrorists: Domestic and International Legal Implications (Human Rights in Ireland, Nov. 2013)[text]
- Theresa May but the UK Shall Not (ENS Blog, Nov. 2013) [text]
- "Theresa May Must not Further Erode Britons' Rights to Citizenship," The Guardian, 13 Nov. 2013 [text]


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