Thematic Focus: Statelessness & Nationality - Pt. 1

Events & opportunities

Seminar: Minority Statelessness and Racialised Citizenship: Romani Minorities and the Uneven Access to Citizenship, Melbourne, 4 April 2019 [info]

CFP: Statelessness and Citizenship Review [info]
- Submission deadline is 15 April 2019.

Call for chapter proposals: Statelessness and Governance Book Project [info]
- Submit proposals by 30 April 2019.

Publications:

4 Years Gone, 6 to Go: Eradicating Statelessness in West Africa by 2024 is No Distant Dream (UNHCR, Feb. 2019) [text]

"Africa's Forgotten Stateless Population," DW, 12 Feb. 2019 [text]

Background Note on Gender Equality, Nationality Laws and Statelessness 2019 (UNHCR, March 2019) [text]

Ending Childhood Statelessness in Europe (UNHCR & Unicef, Jan. 2019) [text]

"'Extreme Example of Statelessness' to Go Before Australia's High Court," SBS News, 12 Feb. 2019 [text]

IACHR Welcomes Actions to Protect the Right to a Nationality and to Prevent Statelessness in the Region (IACHR, Feb. 2019) [text]

"ISIS Cases Raise a Question: What Does It Mean to Be Stateless?," New York Times, 22 Feb. 2019 [text]

Statelessness in Belgium: A Blurred Landscape (ENS Blog, March 2019) [text]

Tackling Statelessness in Kyrgyzstan and the Wider Central Asia Region: The Importance of Networking (ENS Blog, Feb. 2019) [text]

Tainted Trust: Despite the Introduction of a Statelessness Determination Procedure, Stateless Persons in Bulgaria Still Face Arbitrary Detention (ENS Blog, Feb. 2019) [text]

*UN Key Messages on Statelessness (UN Secretary-General, Nov. 2018) [text via Refworld]

Web sites:

Statelessness Index (European Network on Statelessness) [access]
- Since its launch last year, the index has recently added data on six new countries and has plans to increase its coverage in 2019 and 2020.

United Stateless [access]
- "An organization of, by and for stateless people in the U.S. to connect and empower them and advocate for their human rights." For more info., view video of presentation at recent CMS symposium.

*UPDATED

Related posts:
- Thematic Focus: Statelessness & Nationality - Pt. 1 (31 Jan. 2019)
- Thematic Focus: Statelessness & Nationality - Pt. 2 (31 Jan. 2019)

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