Tag Archives: statelessness

Season’s Greetings and a short break for the Torn Identity Blog

Season's Greetings

Season’s Greetings! This blog will take a short break over the festive period, returning in January for more on legal identity, belonging, citizenship and statelessness. For those celebrating Christmas and New Year this month – enjoy the holidays. If, like me, you are travelling this holiday season – for pleasure or to join friends and family – spare a thought …

If your name’s not on the door – an update on citizens excluded from Assam’s Register

Assams Register

It has been six months since the Assam National Register of Citizens (NRC) of 1951 received its final update.  I have written about the continued impact of updating Assam’s Register in previous blogs here and here.  Around 2 million people are excluded after the final count. More and more is written about this crisis in the making, the impact it …

Guest appearance on the European Network on Statelessness Blog

Guest appearance

My recent analysis of the CJEU’s judgment in Bilali C-720/17 on statelessness and subsidiary protection is making a guest appearance on the excellent and informative blog by the European Network on Statelessness. The European Network on Statelessness is the collaboration of non-governmental organisations, academic initiatives, and individual experts committed to addressing statelessness in Europe.  As well as its weekly blog, …

Iran takes steps to make its nationality law less discriminatory

Irans nationality law

I have written before about discriminatory nationality laws, specifically in relation to Nepal.  But Nepal is not the only country with this problem.  There are 25 countries in the world which still have discriminatory nationality laws.  Among them are Brunei, Kuwait, eSwatini, Liberia, the Bahamas, Barbados and Iran. Iran has recently been in the news for proposals which are set …

A framework for dignity – states recently acceded to the Statelessness Conventions

Statelessness Conventions

In an earlier blog I considered some of the countries which had not yet acceded to the two Statelessness Conventions and which had no formal protective framework to avoid, reduce or mitigate the effects of statelessness. People are stateless or become stateless for many different reasons.  What they have in common, wherever they are in the world, is the effect …

It’s cold out there – Non-parties to the Statelessness Conventions

Non-parties

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency describes the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness as “The key international conventions addressing statelessness. They are complemented by international human rights treaties and provisions relevant to the right to a nationality”. But still there are many states that are non-parties and have …

Summer Break for the Torn Identity Blog

Summer Break

There is no guarantee that the British Summer will happen this year, but, just in case… The Torn Identity Blog will take a short summer break, returning in August for more on legal identity, belonging, citizenship and statelessness. If, like me, you are travelling this summer – for pleasure or to join friends and family – spare a thought for …

Forever delayed – statelessness “under consideration” in Lebanon

Lebanon

In this blog I consider the causes of statelessness in Lebanon.  The situation in Lebanon is complex, for historic reasons, due to discriminatory nationality laws, administrative challenges and its large long-term refugee population, primarily from Syria and Palestine.  There is enough material to fill a whole book, never mind just the one post. In this blog I focus on statelessness …

Mr Bilali and the uncertain country of origin – statelessness and subsidiary protection in the CJEU case of Bilali C-720/17

Bilali C720-17

What does the case of Bilali in the Court of Justice of the European Union tell us about the responsibility of states to deal appropriately and effectively with stateless people living within their borders?  This blog considers the non-binding opinion of the Advocate General of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) in the case of Bilali v …

I am a person from here – the Sabah stateless struggling without citizenship in Malaysia

Sabah stateless

In this blog I consider the stateless population in Sabah state, part of Malaysia, how and why they are in this precarious position and what, if anything, Malaysia is doing to reduce the number of stateless people in Sabah.   Who are the Sabah stateless? Sabah is a state in Malaysia and part of the island of Borneo.  Sabah became …