04 September 2025

Thematic Focus: Statelessness & Nationality - Pt. 1

Opportunities:

Call for participation: Why peer spaces matter for stateless people’s wellbeing: A University College London research project [info]
- Follow link for info on how to get involved in this project; no deadline indicated.

Webinar: Resolving Statelessness Together, 10 September 2025 [info]

Short pieces:

Cambodia: Revised Law Endangers Citizenship (HRW, Sept. 2025) [text]

Can the White House Denaturalize Domestic Opponents? (CATO At Liberty Blog, July 2025) [text]

Cypriot children without Cypriot citizenship: What is the ‘Mixed Marriage Problem’? (ENS Blog, Sept. 2025) [text]

Ensuring Vocational Inclusion for Stateless Individuals (Global Alliance to End Statelessness Blog, June 2025) [text]

Indian Citizenship: By Religion, Not By Right (ISI, Aug. 2025) [text]

"Living in the shadows: Why stateless people fear Trump's immigration crackdown," NPR, 21 Aug. 2025 [text]

Niger Officially Launches Global Alliance to End Statelessness (UNHCR, Aug. 2025) [text]

"Stateless in South Africa: The untold crisis facing millions without documentation," Independent Online (South Africa), 19 Aug. 2025 [text via CRAI]

"Stateless Tibetans in exile in India yearn for identity and homeland," BBC News, 11 Aug. 2025 [text]

Taking Stock of the Birthright Citizenship Cases, Part II: Making Sense of the Three Established Exceptions (Just Security, Aug. 2025) [text]
- Focuses on the US.

Trump Administration Releases New Plans to Enforce Birthright Citizenship Order (Boundless Immigration, July 2025) [text]
- See also related Slate article.

Reports: 

The Role of Mukhtars in Supporting Stateless Persons in Lebanon: Challenges, role of civil society and recommendations (SPEAC consortium in Lebanon, 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]

Spotlight on Statelessness: January-June 2025 - Implementation of the Global Action Plan to End Statelessness 2.0 (UNHCR, Sept. 2025) [text]

Statelessness Report 2024 (UNHCR, Aug. 2025) [text]
- Focuses on Benin, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Liberia & Togo. Also available in French.

Unmaking Citizens: The Architecture of Rights Violations and Exclusion in India’s Citizenship Trials (National Law School of India Univ. & Queen Mary Univ. of London, 2025) [text via GlobalCit]

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