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September 7, 2020

Côte d’Ivoire adopts Africa’s first legal process to protect stateless people

This significant milestone will help protect stateless people, allowing them to access basic rights which have remained out of reach for decades, says the UNHCR.
May 12, 2020

Stateless people at risk of being left behind in coronavirus response

Without citizenship, stateless people often do not have access to essential services, including health care, and now may be unable to access coronavirus testing and treatment.
October 13, 2019

Watershed moment as countries step forward to tackle global statelessness

More than 85 governments, civil society and international and regional organisations, have this week pledged hundreds of new commitments to end statelessness, a major cause of human rights deprivations for millions of people worldwide.
June 13, 2019

UNHCR calls on Finnish EU Council Presidency to push for progress in asylum reform

UNHCR recommends that the Finnish Presidency focuses on two urgent priorities: building cooperation and solidarity with refugees and host communities, and pushing for an effective way of sharing responsibility among EU Member States.
November 10, 2016

World Council of Churches strengthens call to end statelessness

Statelessness robs individuals of their identity and their most fundamental human rights, acknowledged a webinar on Global Action Plan to End Statelessness on 4 November 2016. The webinar was organised by World Council of Churches to assess the work achieved since the launch of the #IBelong Campaign to end statelessness by the UNHCR in 2014.
February 4, 2015

Churches condemn annulling of Dominican citizenship rights

A court decision annulling the citizenship of some 200,000 Dominicans of Haitian ancestry has been condemned by church leaders.
July 28, 2014

'Primitive' deprivation of citizenship powers come into force

New powers have come into force this week allowing the Home Secretary Theresa May to deprive naturalised Britons of their citizenship, even where doing so would render them stateless.
May 11, 2014

UK Government to push 'negative step' statelessness measure

The Government is pushing ahead with plans which allow it to make Britons stateless by depriving them of citizenship, despite having described such moves as a “negative step.”
May 8, 2014

MPs back 'dangerous' citizenship-stripping measure

The House of Commons has overturned amendments to the Immigration Bill made by the House of Lords concerning the issue of citizenship-stripping.
May 6, 2014

MPs must oppose citizenship-stripping plans, says legal charity

MPs are tomorrow (7 May) expected to vote on the Home Secretary’s plans for a vast expansion of the Government’s power to arbitrarily deprive Britons of their citizenship.