Theme: stateless people

Last month, Russia’s Constitutional Court ruled that there is no lack of clarity in legal provisions that make it possible to strip a person of their Russian citizenship in instances where the person has no other nationality and would be…

The online discussion “Neither here nor there: Life in Crimea and the Donetsk Basin,” which was organized by the international legal partnership Global Rights Compliance LLP, was held on March 18. The discussion was devoted to the human rights situation…

On March 11, 2021, Russia’s Constitutional Court concluded that there is no lack of legal clarity in provisions of the law that make it possible to strip a person of their Russian citizenship. A request to review the constitutionality of…

The Thomson Reuters Foundation news By Emma Batha LONDON, Feb 9 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – A baby left without a nationality after she was born in Spain to a same-sex couple from Bulgaria and Gibraltar is at the centre of…

The European Network on Statelessness: In Russia, tens of thousands of stateless people are at risk of spending years in detention if the courts order their deportation or expulsion from Russia; a decision that is legally impossible to implement as…

Forum 18: Authorities have stripped Russian citizenship from three men jailed for exercising freedom of religion or belief: Muslim Yevgeny Kim in January 2019, and Jehovah’s Witnesses Feliks Makhammadiyev and Konstantin Bazhenov in April 2020. Kim and Makhammadiyev are now…