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Statelessness as a failure of international law: a critical analysis of the effects of statelessness on gender rights [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Magister Legum - LLMStatelessness is a global human rights problem affecting a vast number of individuals, families and communities worldwide. The concept of statelessness comes to existence as a conflict that was created by international law. Article 15
Petersen, Aamina
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The Role Of Law Clinics in the Fight Against Statelessness by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (Unhcr) in Nigeria

open access: yesInternational Journal of Clinical Legal Education, 2021
Statelessness has become a global phenomenon. Statelessness simply means that a person does not belong to any country in the world. It means that a person does not have a nationality or any means to prove his or her nationality.
Maryam Idris Abdulkadir
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One Step Forward, Half Step Back: the Still Long Way to Go to End Statelessness in Madagascar

open access: yesAfrican Human Mobility Review, 2023
This work sheds light on the still unresolved plight of statelessness in Madagascar, a country that has a long history of stateless communities, above all among the Karana people, of Indian origin and Muslim religion. In spite of several important steps
Cristiano d'Orsi
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Statelessness in Central Asia [Elektronisk resurs] : from Succession to Solutions

open access: yes, 2016
Many of the protracted situations of statelessness that we face today have arisen due to State succession. In addition, State succession continues to poses a risk with regard to the creation of further large scale cases of statelessness. Therefore, there
Tucker, Jason,
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Stateless Distributed Ledgers [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
In public distributed ledger technologies (DLTs), such as Blockchains, nodes can join and leave the network at any time. A major challenge occurs when a new node joining the network wants to retrieve the current state of the ledger. Indeed, that node may receive conflicting information from honest and Byzantine nodes, making it difficult to identify ...
François Bonnet 0001   +2 more
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Role of Colonialism in Creating and Perpetuating Statelessness in Southern Africa

open access: yesAfrican Human Mobility Review, 2023
Some of the largest stateless populations in the world are in Southern Africa. Statelessness in the region is primarily linked to colonial histories, border changes, migration, gender, ethnic and religious discrimination, and poor civil registry systems.
Aimee-Noel Mbiyozo
doaj   +1 more source

Challenging the disunity of statelessness in the Middle East and North Africa

open access: yes, 2017
This chapter explores through an understanding of the history and development of the situation of statelessness across the region – a consequence of nation-state formation, state succession and/or discriminatory ethnic, religious and gender law and ...
Al Barazi, Zahra,, Tucker, Jason,
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Statelessness in Central Asia : from Succession to Solutions

open access: yes, 2016
Many of the protracted situations of statelessness that we face today have arisen due to State succession. In addition, State succession continues to poses a risk with regard to the creation of further large scale cases of statelessness. Therefore, there
Tucker, Jason
core   +2 more sources

Refugees International: A Case Study on NGO Advocacy to Venerate Nationality Rights

open access: yesTilburg Law Review, 2014
Resolution of one of the world’s most persistent human rights problems is finally within reach. In the campaign to fulfill the right to nationality and end statelessness, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and civil society are at the forefront of ...
Maureen Lynch, Sarnata Reynolds
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Right to Nationality and the Reduction of Statelessness: the Responses of the International Migration Law Framework

open access: yesGroningen Journal of International Law, 2017
Statelessness is the absence of the right to have a legal connection between nationality and state. The state of nationality is an identity to enjoy a ‘right to have rights’.
Nafees Ahmad
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