13 November 2022

Thematic Focus: Statelessness & Nationality

Opportunities:

Call for feedback: Global Consultation on the International Recommendations on Statelessness Statistics (IROSS) [info]
- Submit feedback form by 21 November 2022.

Symposium: The Child’s Right to Identity in Emergency Situations, Online, 22 November 2022 [info]

Seminar: Voluntary statelessness, Oxford, 29 November 2022 [info]

Blog posts & press:

3,000 stateless people in Italy, new union launched (InfoMigrants, Nov. 2022) [text]

How Thailand’s grassroots organizations are working to end statelessness (UNHCR, Nov. 2022) [text]

UNHCR welcomes European commitments at regional statelessness consultation (UNHCR, Nov. 2022) [text]

UNHCR’s Grandi urges action to resolve plight of stateless ‘living in the shadows’ (UNHCR, Nov. 2022) [text]

"Why aid groups, and Rohingya themselves, should stop using the term 'stateless'," The New Humanitarian, 10 Nov. 2022 [text]

Reports & journal articles:

"All I Want is to Be Free": Situation Report and Recommendations to Protect the Human Rights of Stateless People in U.S. Immigration Detention and Supervision (Univ. of Chicago & United Stateless, Nov. 2022) [access]

"Customary Obligation to Avoid, Reduce, or Prevent Statelessness in South Asia," Asian Journal of International Law, FirstView, 28 Oct. 2022 [open access]

"D.Z. v. Netherlands, UN Doc.," American Journal of International Law, vol. 116, no. 4 (Oct. 2022) [free full-text]
- "The groundbreaking decision of the UN Human Rights Committee (the Committee) in D.Z. v. Netherlands represents the first decision of any UN treaty body to impose positive duties on a state to grant nationality to a child born in its territory who would otherwise be stateless."

Litigation Toolkit on Statelessness for Legal Practitioners (European Network on Statelessness & AIRE Centre, Oct. 2022) [access]
- Volume I = Impact litigation and judicial mechanisms to effect change
- Volume II = Jurisprudence 

Statelessness and Risks of Statelessness in Iraq: Faili Kurd and Bidoon Communities (UNHCR, Sept. 2022) [text]
- See also Arabic version. Note: A shorter report with the same title was referenced in the previous post on statelessness.

Multimedia:

Developing Statistical Recommendations on Statelessness: Launching a Global Consultation, 28 Oct. 2022 [access]

Improving protection for stateless refugees, 27 Oct. 2022 [access]

Working together to end statelessness: Marking the 10th anniversary of ENS [access]
- See also related editorial.

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