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

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 join.greenparty.org.uk

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

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...

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-...

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…

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 www.thesierraleonetelegraph.com/burkina-faso...

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: 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...

Last week Robert Spano, Jens Elo Peters Rytter, @colmocinneide.bsky.social, @alicedonald.bsky.social and @profveronika.bsky.social discussed the future of the European Convention on Human Rights, including what Denmark has done. Watch a recording of the event at @laws.ucl.ac.uk 👇

EU Commission "democracy shield" plans ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

Trump's lawers deploying "the Beetlejuice principle that if you repeat something three times it somehow appears"

Pleased to have taken part (online) in this workshop on a model law on nationality being debated by the Pan-African Parliament Committee on Cooperation and African stateholders - a key text for the implementation of the protocol on the eradication fo #statelessness pap.au.int/en/news/pres...

UK: deprivation of citizenship on grounds of fraud - Court of Appeal rejects argument that Sec of State should retrospectively consider if the earlier fraud (claiming asylum under a false identity) might have been overlooked if known at the time citizenship was granted (Analayis by Adrian Berry)

Sabah, Malaysia: “Rather than eliminating ‘illegal’ labour, #stateless peoples’ juridical status as ‘deportable’ … becomes a commodity that can be bought and sold but never permanently resolved—preserving the legal vulnerability that enables ongoing exploitation.” blogs.lse.ac.uk/seac/2025/11...

Legal advice is vital for survivors to navigate complex asylum systems. But many are unable to access it. Ambassadors for Change, a group of campaigners with experience of the UK asylum system, write about the barriers in getting free, quality legal advice 👇 www.helenbamber.org/resources/re...

World Bank ID4D update on identification coverage statistics from the Global Findex Database 2025 #legalidentity blogs.worldbank.org/en/digital-d...

I'll be speaking at this launch event next week for a new UNHCR report - Leaving No One Behind: #Statelessness and the Sustainable Development Goals - register here: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/cac7df...

@colinyeo.bsky.social responding to "genuinely radical proposals from the major political parties" on asylum and immigration policies in the UK. Spoiler: he thinks they're bad. "You might want workers but you get people."

Happy Birthday to the European Convention on Human Rights, which has helped to protect #OurRightsAndFreedoms for 75 years. Here are more than 200 examples, from across the continent👇 🔗 www.coe.int/ECHR There are thousands more. #ECHR #ECHR75 @coe.int @echr.coe.int

📝 The updated Commentary on the Fourth Geneva Convention is now available. Join us on 27 Nov 2025 for a launch event exploring key findings & their implications for protecting civilians in war. Sign up & read here → bit.ly/49Ei3Gi #GenevaConventions #IHL #LawOfWar #GCIV

In a speech during her rushed inauguration Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu claims that those participating in protests are “not Tanzanian”. Red flag.

'digital only' is always a bad idea in proof of #legalidentity.

Borders, eh?

The Deprivation of Citizenship Orders (Effect during Appeal) Act 2025 #BritishCitizenship #CitizenshipDeprivation #NationalSecurity tinyurl.com/3fd73fad

This is an amazing and disturbing story—not just the usual game park as neocolonialism, but added extra of EU funded hydropower project in DRC supporting a bitcoin mine managed by a Belgian (of course) aristocrat …

Making the American Passport Less Great The US, which topped the index in 2014, has dropped out of the top ten for the first time since the Henley Passport ranking began in 2006. www.economist.com/graphic-deta...

Namibia carries on as top performer in addressing #statelessness - drafting regulations for implementation of the Stateless Determination and Protection Bill informante.web.na?p=384303

Several African countries have signed deportation agreements with Washington, agreeing to accept deportees, regardless of their country of origin.

📢The European Court of Human Rights has said Norway must assess the global climate impacts of oil & gas before opening new oil fields. This week, the ECtHR gave a ruling that will change how governments approach fossil fuel development 🧵 www.greenpeace.org/internationa...

Private members bill proposed in #Algeria to strip citizenship from nationals outside the country considered by government authorities to be working against Algeria’s core interests or persisting in “disloyalty.” #citizenshipdeprivation north-africa.com/algerian-law...

New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...

UK: "The new law means that a person who has succeeded in their appeal against a deprivation order and who previously would have had their British citizenship reinstated at that point ... will not have their citizenship reinstated until the Home Secretary has exhausted her appeal rights"

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📣 Registration is open for our event Reimagining Digital ID @mediacomgold.bsky.social @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social w/ findings from our www.redid.net project and talks by colleagues working on implications of Digital ID in Global South, migrant & refugee contexts explore.gold/digital-id All welcome! ⬇️

At least 49 family members and colleagues of Afghans affected by the MoD’s mass data breach have been killed, according to on-the-ground research into 350 affected people submitted to the Commons defence select committee www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...