In a setback for equal rights, the Israeli Supreme Court rejected a series of petitions challenging a law that, among other things, makes it impossible for Palestinians to acquire Israeli citizenship through marriage.
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Posted in: Middle East, Rights & Justice
Topics: Adalah, citizenship, discrimination, Israel, occupied Palestinian Territories, Palestinians, Sebastian Kohn, statelessness
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In July, the Republic of South Sudan became Africa’s newest independent state. Since then, the Sudanese government in Khartoum has refused to consider the several hundred thousand “southerners” resident in the north—some of them for decades, many of them born there—as citizens of the...
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The manipulation of citizenship laws for political purposes has long been a popular way of excluding opponents and silencing critics. In Zambia it's become all too familiar.
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In the small town of Malindi, Kenya, women who use drugs will never receive the services they deserve until the community listens to their needs.
Posted in: Africa, Education & Youth, Health, Rights & Justice
Topics: citizenship, criminal justice, drug policy, drug treatment, harm reduction, HIV/AIDS, human rights, Kenya, malaria, Malindi, needle exchange, police abuse, pregnancy, public health, sex workers, statelessness, Umra Omar, women
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Tens of thousands of Congolese refugees are poised to return to their home country after more than a decade of exile in neighboring Rwanda. They face a cold welcome.
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The Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness, which is marking its 50th anniversary, remains the best international tool we have to help the more than 12 million people around the world who have no nationality anywhere.
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In this interview, Open Society Roma Initiatives Fellow Mensur Haliti explains why census mobilization matters, and what drives his personal commitment to Roma emancipation.
Posted in: Europe, Governance & Accountability, Rights & Justice
Topics: Albania, Balkan Egyptians, Balkans, Bernard Rorke, Blindspot, Bosnia & Herzegovina, census, citizenship, Decade of Roma Inclusion, European Roma Rights Centre, European Union, Forum of Roma IDPs, Ivaca Dacic, Kosovo, Macedonia, Mensur Haliti, Montenegro, Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, refugees, Roma, Serbia, statelessness, use your ballot wisely, Yugoslavia
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The Dominican Republic is talking up reforms in its discriminatory process for acquiring national identity documents. A closer look reveals a much less encouraging picture.
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Believe it or not, one of the richest countries on earth simply cannot be bothered to document the size of its stateless population, let alone resolve this long-standing problem.
Posted in: Middle East, Rights & Justice
Topics: bidoon, citizenship, equality and citizenship, Kuwait, minority rights, Sebastian Kohn, statelessness
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It's rare that statelessness finds its way into the headlines. But with one minister resigning and another now under attack, a fight over citizenship policy is roiling the political scene in Denmark.
Posted in: Europe, Rights & Justice
Topics: citizenship, Denmark, Facebook, H.P. v. Denmark, immigration, Laura Bingham, Palestinians, statelessness, xenophobia