IntroductionThe legal regulation of nationality, statelessness, extradition, and asylum occupies a critical position at the intersection of State sovereignty and evolving international human rights ...

West Africa is celebrating today the first anniversary of the Abidjan Declaration on the eradication of statelessness. The Declaration, adopted on 25 February 2015 by the Member States of the Economic ...

The 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness are the key international conventions addressing statelessness. Both are ...

Discriminatory nationality laws and conflicts like the Syrian civil war mean that one child is born every 10 minutes without an official nationality, according to a new report by the United Nations ...

As many as 15 million people are considered stateless worldwide today, with millions more at risk for statelessness. This means they are “not considered as nationals by any State under the operation ...

As many as 15 million people are considered stateless worldwide today, with millions more at risk for statelessness. This means they are “not considered as nationals by any State under the operation ...

By Garfield L. Angus The future of the Palestinian question has long depended not only on Palestinian resistance or Israeli policy, but also on the shifting balance of regional power in the Middle ...

Anticipatory self-defence in Jewish political thought begins there. It cannot be settled by repeating the language of ...

ASBURY PARK, N.J. — After decades without a country, Karina Ambartsoumian-Clough finally has a home she can call her own. Last November, she and her husband, Kevin Clough, closed on a charming, single ...

WITH Human Rights Day approaching and in the continued celebration of International Women’s Month, Lawyers for Human Rights (LHR) Statelessness Unit launched the “Her Document: Her Dignity” campaign, ...