13 May 2021

Thematic Focus: Statelessness & Nationality

Opportunities:

Call for applications: 1st Online Course on Statelessness, 21 June-16 July 2021 [info]
- Apply by 17 May 2021.

Webinar: Statelessness and International Criminal Law, 17 May 2021 [info]

Blog posts & press:

The Campaign to End Statelessness: January-March 2021 Update (UNHCR, April 2021) [text]

Navigating intersecting statelessness: Syrian Kurds in Europe (ENS Blog, May 2021) [text]

Russia’s Constitutional Court delivers questionable ruling on nationality stripping (ENS Blog, April 2021) [text]

Statusless and Stateless Chinese Migrants in the UK (Border Criminologies Blog, April 2021) [text]

UK Home Office should seek to remove barriers faced by stateless children born in the UK rather than making it more difficult for them to acquire British citizenship (ENS Blog, May 2021) [text]

Reports & journal articles:

Citizenship (Amendment) Act 2019 and International Law (Univ. of Melbourne, April 2021) [text]
- Focuses on India.

Desk Review on Populations at Risk of Statelessness: Children of Philippine Descent in a Migratory Setting in Gulf Cooperation Council (GSS) Countries and Persons of Japanese Descent (UNHCR, April 2021) [text]

"Ghosts in America: Working Towards Building a Legal Framework for Stateless Individuals in the United States," Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law, vol. 53, no. 1 (2021) [full-text]

Good Practices Brochure: Stateless Women and Girls (CARE, OCHA & UN Women, May 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]
- Focuses on Asia.

I Am Human (UNHCR, April 2021) [text
- Focuses on the UK. See also related UNHCR news story and ENS blog post.

Situation assessment of statelessness, health and COVID-19 in Europe (European Network on Statelessness, April 2021) [access]
- Follow link for report and policy brief.

"Stateless Persons and Social Rights," Chapter in Research Handbook on International Law and Social Rights (Edward Elgar, 2020) [preprint]

"Statelessness in the COVID-19 Pandemic," The Lancet, vol. 397, no. 10284 (April 2021) [free full-text]

We are like "stray animals": Thousands Living on the Margins due to Statelessness in Zimbabwe (Amnesty International, April 2021) [text

Multimedia:

How to Protect Every Child’s Right to a Nationality: A Discussion Among Treaty Body Experts, 15 April 2021 [access]

Statelessness and the Right to Health beyond the pandemic, 21 April 2021 [access]

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