Stateless Children: Implementing the Right to Rights

Statelessness
Statelessness affects some 15 million people globally, effectively depriving them of access to education, employment, social services, and legal status. Justice Initiative advocacy, research and litigation aim to expand access to citizenship and protect minorities.

The Right to Nationality and the Secession of South Sudan
April 2012
A legal analisys of the crisis of statlessness created by the separation of the two Sudans, now unfolding against the background of open conflict between the two countries.

Stateless in Bakassi: How a Changed Border Left Inhabitants Adrift
Chidi Odinkalu
April 2, 2012
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The peninsula of Bakassi has long been the subject of a territorial dispute between Cameroon and Nigeria. Now it shows what can happen to people's nationality and citizenship rights when control over the territory where they live shifts from one country to another.

Thomas Hammarberg: Making the Case for Anti-Discrimination Against Roma
Martin Demirovski
March 1, 2012
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The Council of Europe's latest report on the human rights of Roma and Travellers is an invaluable study. The onus to use it to improve the lives of Europeans who are also Roma still rests with national governments.

Submission to the UN Human Rights Committee: Review of the Dominican Republic
March 2012
This submission tendered by the Open Society Justice Initiative and the Center for Justice and International Law concludes that measures taken by the Dominican Republic since its last periodic review in 2001 have actually operated to increase, rather than combat, discrimination against Dominicans of Haitian descent.

Call for Applications: Summer Course on Statelessness
January 25, 2012
The Open Society Justice Initiative and the Statelessness Programme at Tilburg University Law School invite applicants for a summer course on statelessness, to be held in Tilburg, The Netherlands, from July 23 to 27, 2012.