Thematic Focus: Statelessness & Nationality

Opportunities:

CFP: Statelessness and Citizenship Review [info]

- Submission deadline is 1 October 2023.

Webinar: ‘Credibility Undermined’: Challenges Faced by Stateless Asylum Seekers in the UK, 11 October 2023 [info]

Short pieces:

Addressing statelessness in the MENA region: a new network for mobilisation (ENS Blog, Sept. 2023) [text]

Advocating for Change in the Netherlands: The Stateless Rights Collective (SRC) (ENS Blog, Aug. 2023) [text]

IACHR calls on States to guarantee full enjoyment of the right to nationality (OAS, Sept. 2023) [text]

Los niños de dónde? Apatridia infantil: la lucha por la nacionalidad en Colombia (Linked In, Aug. 2023) [text]

Training Workshop and Steering Meeting on the Draft Protocol on the Specific Aspects of the Right to Nationality and the Eradication of Statelessness in Africa (African Union, Sept. 2023) [text]

Reports & journal articles:

"Contextualising Statelessness: Contingent Citizenship and the Politics of (non)Recognition in Thailand," TRaNS: Trans-Regional and -National Studies of Southeast Asia, FirstView, 4 Sept. 2023 [open access]

 “I Don’t Have a Future”: Stateless Kuwaitis and the Right to Education (Amnesty International, Aug. 2023) [text]

Regional Model Law on the Determination of Statelessness, the Protection of Stateless Persons and the Facilitation of Their Naturalization (ECOWAS, ECCAS & UNHCR, May 2023) [text]

Report of the Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls, its causes and consequences, Reem Alsalem: Violence against women and girls, nationality laws and statelessness, UN Doc. No. A/78/256 (UN General Assembly, July 2023) [access via ReliefWeb]

El riesgo de apatridia en movimientos mixtos sucesivos: La experiencia del “Proyecto Nacionalidad” en Chile con niños, niñas y adolescentes hijos/as de venezolanos nacidos en Colombia (Universidad Alberto Hurtado & Proyecto Nacionalidad, Aug. 2023) [text]

Statelessness (including an update on the #Ibelong campaign), UN Doc. No. EC/74/SC/CRP.12 (Executive Committee of the High Commissioner's Programme, May 2023) [text]

- See also related presentation & NGO statement.

Statelessness & Citizenship Review, vol. 5, no. 1 (2023) [open access]

- Mix of articles, commentary, case notes and book reviews.

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Statelessness & Nationality (10 Aug. 2023)