Thematic Focus: Statelessness & Nationality

Courses:

9th Online Course on Statelessness, 26 September-19 October 2023 [info]

- Register by 28 August 2023. Offered by IIHL.

Protection of Stateless Persons, Online, 29 August-10 October 2023 [info]

- Register by 29 August 2023. Offered by the UPEACE Human Rights Centre.

Statelessness Intensive Course, Online, 14-20 February 2024 [info]

- Apply by 30 September 2023. Offered by the Peter McMullin Centre on Statelessness.

Short pieces:

Advocating for Change: Bhutanese Refugee Community in Denmark urges action on Statelessness (ENS Blog, Aug. 2023) [text]

Gaps and Opportunities in mainstreaming statelessness and nationality matters in Europe at the Human Rights Council (ENS Blog, July 2023) [text]

ICGLR-UNHCR study finds long-term refugees at risk of statelessness in the Great Lakes region (UNHCR, Aug. 2023) [text]

UNHCR applauds Kenya’s efforts to resolve stateless situation of Pemba community (UNHCR, July 2023) [text]

Reports & journal articles:

Addressing Statelessness in Europe: Closing Protection Gaps and Realising Everyone's Right to a Nationality, 8-9 June 2023 - Conference Outcomes Report [text]

"At Risk of Statelessness: Children Born in Lebanon to Migrant Domestic Workers," International Migration Review, OnlineFirst, 27 July 2023 [open access]

Children on the Margins: The Impact of Depriving Children of their Right to Nationality and Legal Identity in Northwest Syria (Norwegian Refugee Council & Tufts Univ., July 2023) [text]

Experts Conference on Eradication of Statelessness and Access to Legal Identity Documentation in the Great Lakes Region, Nairobi, 25-27 July 2023 

- See the concept note, keynote speech and outcome document from this meeting.

"Files, Families and the Nation: An Archival History, Perhaps," Journal of Australian Studies, Latest Articles, 2 Aug. 2023 [open access]

"Park K: Statelessness," Chapter in USCIS Policy Manual (US Dept. of Homeland Security, 2023) [text]

- Note: This policy guidance will become effective as of 30 Oct. 2023 and will be incorporated into the manual at that time. See also related DHS news release and UNHCR press release.

The right to a nationality: equality in nationality rights in law and in practice, UN Doc. No. A/HRC/53/L.28/Rev.1 (UN Human Rights Council, July 2023) [access]

- See also related ISI news story.

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Statelessness & Nationality (18 July 2023)