11 July 2024

Thematic Focus: Statelessness & Nationality

Opportunities:

Seminar: Statelessness and the Risk of Genocide, Canberra, 25 July 2024 [info]

CFP:  Doctoral Workshop on Statelessness, Melbourne, 3-4 March 2025 [info]
- Submit abstracts by 31 July 2024.

Call for registration: 13th Online Course on Statelessness in English, 10 September-3 October 2024 [info]
- Register by 12 August 2024.

Short pieces:

Centring the Lived Experience of Stateless People in Legal Education (CSS Blog, June 2024) [text]
- Focuses on Australia.

Every Child Must Have Legal Status  (UNICEF Blog, June 2024) [text]
- Focuses on Thailand.

Five key takeaways on statelessness from UNHCR’s Global NGO Consultations (ENS Editorial, June 2024) [text]

For Africa’s Nomads, Refugees, and Political Exiles, a Champion of Belonging (TuftsNow, June 2024) [text]

Japan grants US$5.5M aid to improve access to birth registration of marginalized populations in BARMM (UNHCR, June 2024) [text]
- Focuses on the Philippines.

Mutual recognition of parenthood across the EU could prevent statelessness (ENS Blog, June 2024) [text]

Recognising the Invisible: Understanding Statelessness in Asia (Waseda Univ., June 2024) [text]

Stateless persons of Palestinian origin registered with UNRWA should, in principle, be granted refugee status if UNRWA’s protection or assistance is considered to have ceased (Court of Justice of the EU, June 2024) [text]

States Party to the Statelessness Conventions (Refworld, June 2024) [access]

*Using the law to end statelessness (ENS Editorial, July 2024) [text]

Reports & journal articles:

2024 World Conference on Statelessness: Setting a Shared Agenda for the Statelessness Field - Key Takeaways (ISI et al., June 2024) [text]
- See also related synthesis report. Visit the conference page for other highlights.

Ensuring birth registration for the prevention of statelessness (UNHCR, Jan. 2024) [text]

"India's Citizenship Amendment Act: Bigotry Triumphs Over Empathy," Routed Magazine (May 2024)[text]

"Problems and prospects for reducing statelessness in the Republic of Kazakhstan," Bulletin of the Karaganda University 'Law Series', vol. 29, no. 2 (2024) [open access]

"The Right to Have Rights or the Right to Have Life? An Assessment of Proactive Citizenship-stripping to Fulfill the State Duty of Non-Refoulement," Pace International Law Review, vol. 36, no. 2 (2024) [full-text]

"Statelessness–the Root Cause of the Rohingya Crisis–Needs to Be Addressed," Chapter in The Accountability, Politics and Humanitarian Toll of the Rohingya Genocide (New Lines Institute, June 2024) [text]
- Scroll to p. 23.

"Statelessness of an Ethnic Minority: The Case of Rohingya," Frontiers in Political Science, 27 June 2024 [open access]

Update on Statelessness, 90th meeting of the Standing Committee, UN Doc. No. EC/75/SC/CRP.14 (EXCOM, June 2024) [text]
- See also related presentation and the oral and written NGO statements.

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