Comments on the draft Recommendations are also accepted until December 15! Learn more here: law.unimelb.edu.au/centres/stat...

Nationality and Statelessness in the Context of Climate Change ONLINE PRESENTATION of the Draft Global Recommendations on Nationality and Statelessness in the Context of Climate Change

After missing the 1.5º C #climate goal earlier this year, this effort is now all the more important. Register here:

At 10AM CET tomorrow, the @McMullin_Centre will be hosting a seminar with #UNHCR to present draft Global Recommendations on Nationality and #Statelessness in the Context of Climate Change.
#globalwarming #climatechange #climateaction

One year of collective action to end statelessness - Global Alliance to End Statelessness Yesterday, at the Palais des Nations in Geneva,  the Global Alliance to End Statelessness marked its first anniversary during a side event of UNHCR's Executive Committee meeting.   Launched just one ...

#Statelessness is a global issue, and requires global action. The Global Alliance to End @EndStatelessns recently celebrated one year of action and progress. statelessnessalliance.org/news/one-yea...

Good morning, Bluesky! My name is Nadja and I am a clinical student at BU IHRC. I’m excited to share developments in the global fight against #statelessness this week.

Read the Declaration issued at the conclusion of the Gaza Tribunal's hearings in Sarajevo last week:https://gazatribunal.com/the-sarajevo-declaration-of-the-gaza-tribunal/

Those who couldn't be in Sarajevo for the Gaza Tribunal hearings this week can watch them on the Tribunal's YouTube channel. Here, session on international law with IHRC's director Prof. Susan Akram: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptQE...

Join IHRC director + a huge lineup of int'l law scholars for a presentation on the People's Tribunal on Gaza - happening on #Nakba Day May 15 - organized by the University of Alicante in Spain, this event will be primarily in English, 10 am - 2:30 pm EDT
Livestream link: vertice.cpd.ua.es/303540

Bearing Witness and Building Solidarity: Screening of No Other Land at BU Law Creating space for Palestinian narratives is urgent but increasingly rare. As pro-Palestinian advocacy faces intensifying repression in the…

Sharing a blogpost regarding the importance of continuing to hold support for Palestine (in the face of strong adversity) and the connected themes of Academic freedom written by a peer in the IHRC and close friend buslahr.medium.com/bearing-witn...

Assessment: U.S. Compliance with the Refugee Convention at its 70th Anniversary - Human Rights First As the world marks the 70th Anniversary of the 1951 Refugee Convention on July 28, 2021, the United States continues to flout its legal obligations under the Convention, endangering lives, failing to ...

"Non-Refoulement" (which prohibits states from returning or "refouling" a person to a country where they face a genuine risk of persecution, torture, or other serious human rights violations.)
humanrightsfirst.org/library/asse...
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While the US has not ratified the 1951 UN Refugee Convention, it did ratify the 1967 protocol and has its own Refugee act of 1980, both of which place a legal obligation on Republicans and the Trump regime to respect the doctrine of “Non-Refoulement”
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In addition to the broad dangers to immigrant communities, rhetoric around deportations and revocation of legal status are particularly salient for those who have no nationality at all. bsky.app/profile/nyti...
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Human Rights Watch declaration on prison conditions in El Salvador for the J.G.G. v. Trump case I, Juanita Goebertus, declare the following under 28 U.S.C. § 1746, and state that under penalty of perjury the following is true and correct to the best of my knowledge and belief:

Coverage has often focused on deportations of immigrants, centering around destinations including CECOT, a maximum security anti-Terrorism facility which has already been criticized by Human Rights watch www.hrw.org/news/2025/03... for violations including torture and deprivation of rights. (3/6)

YouTube video by NBC10 Boston Video shows ICE agents violently detain Worcester mom and daughter

It is worth adding that here in the United States our own narratives around immigration have also produce destructive systems. Including ICE detentions yesterday in Massachusetts (Worcester) and the BU (Brighton) areas, www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nvvo...
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My previous posts about the Dominican Republic and Kuwait have been trying to put some light on ways in which rhetoric around “protecting borders” or reserving certain rights for “real citizens” feed deeply destructive systems that attack basic protections and human rights. (1/6)

Oman gov’t passes law ’making it easier’ to revoke citizenship Oman has passed a law which allows the government to revoke the citizenships of those criticising the country or working against its ’national interests’.

Unfortunately this development creates ripples as a negative example for other countries in the region including Oman, which has also recently passed new laws to widen the criteria for citizenship stripping. www.newarab.com/news/oman-go...
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Mass citizenship stripping in Kuwait cements authoritarian turn, critics say Eleven months ago, Sheikh Meshaal Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, the Emir of Kuwait, dissolved the country’s National Assembly and suspended it indefinitely. Since then, the wealthy Arab state—long known as the s...

As a result Kuwait has become a regional leader in human rights violations and continues to slide towards more political concentration in the hands of fewer citizens and a path to authoritarianism. amwaj.media/en/article/m...
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KUNA : Commission: 434 individuals stripped of Kuwaiti citizenship - Security - 01/05/2025 كونا 2018, جميع الحقوق محفوظة

But is also an ongoing process with new lists of people being stripped of their nationality being released every week (434 last week) www.kuna.net.kw/ArticleDetai...
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From Citizen to Stateless: The Quiet Crisis of Nationality Stripping in Kuwait and the Gulf In the final months of 2024, the Kuwaiti government began stripping thousands of people of their nationality — many of whom had held…

This process has been explained by a peer of mine in a recent blog post buslahr.medium.com/from-citizen...
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From Citizen to Stateless: The Quiet Crisis of Nationality Stripping in Kuwait and the Gulf In the final months of 2024, the Kuwaiti government began stripping thousands of people of their nationality — many of whom had held…

In Kuwait, nationality stripping has been underway since late 2024, and over 40,000 individuals, primarily foreign-born women married to Kuwaiti men have had their nationality revoked under the pretense of correcting legal errors.
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Signez la pétition Youth Statement for Gender Equality in Nationality Laws - البيان الشبابي

🌍 In 24 countries, #women still can’t pass their #nationality to their children on an equal basis with men. Over 40 countries have #gender-#discriminatory #nationality laws. 📝 Sign the Youth Statement for Gender-Equality in Nationality Laws 👉 bit.ly/42oE3jw

The 1951 Refugee Convention | UNHCR US The 1951 Refugee Convention and its 1967 Protocol are the key documents that form the basis of UNHCR’s work. Learn more about them and view the original text.

These deportations returning hundreds of thousands of Haitians to a country which is a threat to their safety should be criticized as a violation of the doctrine of #Non-Refoulement www.unhcr.org/us/about-unh... a core principle of the 1951 Refugee Convention which the D.R. is a party to.
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Dominican Republic deported more than 276,000 people in 2024 | CNN Haiti’s then-Foreign Minister Dominique Dupuy condemned “brutal scenes of raids and deportations” amid the large-scale expulsion in October.

As a result hundreds of thousands of Haitians have been deported from the Dominican Republic. The government reported it deported 276,000+ people in 2024 www.cnn.com/2025/01/02/a... including children and pregnant women news.un.org/en/story/202...
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Haiti: Mass displacement and deportation surge amid violence Marked by mass killings, abductions and sexual violence during the first quarter of 2025, the human rights situation in Haiti remained extremely concerning, the UN said in a report published on Wednes...

Recently, the political and economic crisis in Haiti has exacerbated (with significant gang violence and lawless zones in major population centers) creating a number of additional refugees fleeing Haiti and entering the Dominican republic. news.un.org/en/story/202...
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“Foreigner” Birth Certificates and Statelessness in the Dominican Republic - Berkeley Public Policy Journal By Chelsea Muir In June of 2015, the island of Hispaniola emerged in the international news cycle when the Dominican government threatened the mass deportation [...]

A key feature of this system has been the denial of birth certificates and the use of different colored (pink) birth certificates for foreigners to limit documentation available to be used to prove citizenship. bppj.studentorg.berkeley.edu/2017/12/01/f...
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Ten Years After a Fateful Court Decision, the Dominican Republic Still Has a Statelessness Problem - The Center for Migration Studies of New York (CMS) The Dominican Republic is at a crossroads in how it handles the situation of stateless Dominicans and Haitian migrants in their country.

However since 2013 #deportations have continued regardless, and as of 2023 roughly 130,000 of the people in groups A and B continued to be excluded from Dominican Citizenship. cmsny.org/dr-stateless...
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#Nationalitystripping disproportionately targeted Dominicans of Haitian decent. A 2014 law which purported to propose a solution to this crisis by creating paths to citizenship for those with birth documentation (group A) and without that documentation (group B).
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Dominican court ruling renders hundreds of thousands stateless For four generations Banesa Blemi's family, descendants of Haitian immigrants, put down roots as low-wage sugar cane cutters in their adopted homeland, and came to consider themselves Dominicans.

In the Dominican Republic this began in 2013 with a ruling from the Constitutional Tribunal which retroactively retracted #birthrightcitizenship back to 1929. (Stripping Dominican nationality from roughly 250,000 Immigrants who had immigrated since 1929)
www.reuters.com/article/worl...
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Currently across the globe (ex: Dominican Republic, Kuwait, United States…) many people and governments have been engaged in anti immigrant rhetoric, resulting in laws and policy limiting #nationalityrights and potentially #citizenshipstripping for perceived political and economic gains.
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From the limbo of statelessness to belonging in Panama | UNHCR US After moving to Panama from Colombia at the age of 20, Hermelinda spent much of the next 50 years living in fear because she lacked a legal identity.

Additionally Dr. Vergara-Figueroa raised the regional issue of birthright documentation and access to nationality, briefly noting Panama, which UNHCR estimates (based on census data) has over 28,700 people who are stateless or at risk of statelessness.
www.unhcr.org/us/news/stor...
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