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But when Leviathan is the text, the case is altered.

EU Law Analysis Misreading the Temporary Protection Directive? The CJEU sets the record straight on access to subsidiary protection in Framholm (C-195/25)...

The EU's Court of Justice has confirmed that beneficiaries of temporary protection in the EU must be allowed to apply for other forms of protection.

Analysis of the judgment, by Dr Meltem Ineli Ciger: eulawanalysis.blogspot.com/2025/11/misr...

30 years after Ogoni Nine died, fight for justice continues ‘When your environment is polluted, it’s destroyed, and you no longer have the right to live’ – Ken Saro Wiwa

Thirty years after the execution of the Ogoni Nine, who campaigned against oil pollution in the Nigeria, Leigh Day's Anthony Hayward tells Open Democracy the fight for justice continues
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/5050/thirty-years-after-deaths-of-the-ogoni-nine-the-fight-for-justice-continues/

Canadian citizenship can now be passed down to people born abroad, beyond the first generation, if the parents spent a cumulative three years in Canada before the child's birth. Still contestation around "intercountry adoptees" when it comes to passing down citizenship.

31-Year Deception Exposed: Sudanese Man Gets Life Sentence For Forging Kuwaiti Citizenship

Kuwait - Sudanese man alleged to have fraudulently acquired citizenship on basis found in the territory of unknown parents not only has citizenship withdrawn after 30 yrs, but also sentenced to life imprisonment (apparently without commiting any other offence)
www.arabtimesonline.com/news/31-year...

Our response to the official text of the EU Digital Omnibus Regulation Proposal If passed, the Omnibus will be the most extraordinary reversal of digital rights in a generation

If passed, the EU Omnibus covering data and AI will be the most extraordinary reversal of digital rights in a generation.

Read our response to the official text of the EU Digital Omnibus Regulation Proposal⬇️

www.adalovelaceinstitute.org/news/our-res...

#ECJ: A Member State’s police may decide, on the basis of internal rules, whether to keep the biometric and #DNA data of someone accused or suspected of a criminal offence #DataProtection 👉 curia.europa.eu/jcms/jcms/Jo...

Christopher Bertram | ‘Core Protection’ Refugeehood is not supposed to be like this. The ideal envisaged by the Refugee Convention is that refugee status should...

Me at the LRB blog on the atrocious refugee policy of Mahmood and Starmer

New Passport Rule Sends Blunt and Sweeping Message to Trans Americans

US: New rule that passports must now reflect the sex on a person’s original birth certificate, reversing decades old policy #legalidentity
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/u...

Happy Monday! AJIL Unbound's latest symposium "Africa's International Law of Democracy" is now online! Click here to begin reading: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Had so much fun recording this podcast with Philippa Webb, Marko Milanovic & Nicolas Angelet. We discuss the legality of the US strikes on suspected drug boats and the UNRWA advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice. Take a listen!

www.ejiltalk.org/ejil-the-pod...

New GLOBALCIT study compares the conditions of the citizenship acquisition processes for first-generation immigrants and their descendants in 11 countries 🇦🇹🇧🇪🇩🇰🇫🇷🇩🇪🇮🇹🇱🇻🇳🇱🇵🇹🇸🇪🇬🇧

📰 Summary and Key Findings: tinyurl.com/56sknbxw
📖 Full Report: tinyurl.com/yc6cdszx

Mahmood furious over asylum seeker taxi bills.

Overton window has been obliterated

The Labour Government reeling off the same far-right talking points on immigration. And look who is celebrating. The far-right.

There is a political alternative that won’t ever scapegoat those fleeing war, persecution and torture

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ICE-style raids on Britain's streets: that's all Labour's brutal asylum reforms will achieve | Stella Creasy If we want to ‘stop the boats’, we need to stop the BS when it comes to what creates refugees, and how to respond to them, says Labour MP Stella Creasy

Stella Creasy MP writes that the asylum proposals of the Labour government are "performatively cruel" and likely to be ineffective in securing control or going after the smuggling gangs
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

There is no credible reason to think the 20 years vs 10 years of renewals is going to make a difference. This is all downside on integration in UK for nothing on pull factor impact. Whether 20 years seems fair or much too harsh may differ significantly across political perspectives!

The Labour government's proposals on temporary protection seem very close indeed to Priti Patel's 2022 proposals in analysis, in spirit and content.

Where Mahmood and Starmer go harder than Patel and Johnson is by arguing 10 years is too short; could return refugees after 10-19 years in Britain

Why South Africa should ban dual citizenship for public officials Explore the implications of dual citizenship for South African public officials following the recent cabinet reshuffle, and why urgent reforms are necessary.

sundayindependent.co.za/dispatch/202...

Protocol to the African Charter on HPR on the right to a nationality and the eradication of #statelessness in Africa adopted in Feb 2024 has official launch event at the AU HQ in Addis

The October issue of AJIL is now available online! This issue places special focus on the CPUS section, where members of the Board have written essays on the various policies and changes under the second Trump administration. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Citizenship liminality and the bureaucracy of in-between Is citizenship being purposefully throttled until the White Paper on Citizenship, Immigration and Refugee Protection finds political traction, which the GNU cannot provide in its current composition? ...

The impossibiliity of naturalisation in South Africa - available in law, completely blocked in practice - apartheid bureaucracy lives on in spirit #citizenshipinafrica www.dailymaverick.co.za/opinionista/...

The unfinished struggle for gender equality in Ethiopia’s nationality law #equalnationality addisstandard.com/citizens-by-...

Protection of the Dead Whether lawful or unlawful, death is an inherent part of war - and has been throughout history. Yet, until now, IHL rules on the protection of the dead have received relatively little attention in sch...

As an inherent part of war, protection of the dead has received little attention until now.

The new IRRC edition “Protection of the Dead” addresses that gap, focusing on contemporary wartime realities and humanitarian responses.

📚 Read the full edition: bit.ly/43vqz6N

🎧In the first podcast episode, Living Without a Nationality, Mona, Farah, Halima & Sarah share their journeys, revealing what it means to raise children without #nationality & navigate life in legal limbo. Discover their stories of courage & belonging 👉 bit.ly/3JB9kdB

Cheery stuff on AI & five collapse scenarios : Collapses of Trust, Order, Truth, Life & Value…

Been in the works for a year or more - this is the first grant of nationality under the policy

Status of Stateless Fighters in International Humanitarian Law: An Overlooked Legal Dilemma [Jyoti Singh is a member of the Statelessness Asia Pacific Research Network at the Peter McMullin Centre on Statelessness (University of Melbourne). She is an advocate and researcher based in New D…

Jyoti Singh @opiniojuris.bsky.social : #Stateless Fighters in International Humanitarian Law opiniojuris.org/2025/11/12/s...

Burkina Faso extends citizenship to Black Americans to help boost economy Sierra Leone Telegraph: 12 November 2025: Last Friday, 7th November 2025, Captain Ibrahim Traoré welcomed 700 African Americans, Afro-Caribbeans and Afro-Europeans, who affirmed their commitment to…

Burkina Faso extends citizenship to Black Americans to help boost economy www.thesierraleonetelegraph.com/burkina-faso...

Ethiopia Repatriates Over 500,000 Citizens Amid Ongoing Crisis Ethiopia Repatriates Over 500,000 Citizens Amid Ongoing Crisis

Ethiopia repatriates over 500,000 citizens "facing difficult conditions across the Middle East, Africa, and Asian nations, including Myanmar." www.ebc.et/english/Home...

ICYMI: Not in Our Name: Afrikaners Respond to the Misuse of Our Story in U.S. Politics www.afrikanersvirsa.co.za/en

Burkina Faso introduces new biometric ID system in major digital leap | Biometric Update The military leader of Burkina Faso has set a new biometric national ID card initiative in motion to replace the longstanding legacy identification system.

Burkina Faso: new biometric ID card will serve as the primary legal identification tool for every Burkinabé citizen, to be issued to children _from the age of five_ #legalidentity #digitalID
www.biometricupdate.com/202511/burki...