Theme: stateless people

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…

At the end of June 2020, Anti-Discrimination Centre “Memorial” in cooperation with lawyer Olga Tseytlina managed to secure the release of two more stateless persons (natives of Kyrgyzstan) from temporary detention centre for foreign nationals. Both of these stateless persons…

An urgent call to states, donors and other stakeholders to promote and protect the rights of stateless persons in their COVID-19 responses As governments across the world confront the COVID-19 pandemic, facing deeply challenging decisions on protecting public health while…

Mr. O., a native of Kyrgyzstan and a stateless person, who had been living in Russia for more than 15 years, has been kept in a temporary detention centre for foreign nationals for 8 months, since September 2019. The court…