Analysis of the exclusion of Sahrawis from Spain's proposals for immigration regulation, arguing that 'the decree’s design is based on regulatory logic, not on a stance in international politics.' #WesternSahara #statelessness www.atalayar.com/en/opinion/i...

Law Library of US Congress is hosting an online webinar on nationality law in the DRC - presenter is Louis Gilbert, foreign law specialist at LOC; here's the registration link loc.zoomgov.com/webinar/regi...

Burkina Faso : la junte suspend 359 associations après la dissolution de 118 autres, en grande partie engagées dans la défense des droits humains. Son chef, le capitaine Ibrahim Traoré, a déclaré que les Burkinabés devaient « oublier la démocratie ». www.lemonde.fr/afrique/arti...

Not sure how to decide on AI in your workplace? Try the Careful Consequence Check, an easy, free tool to quickly assess risks before launching AI products or features. It’s not a full risk analysis, but a great first step. Learn more: www.careful.industries/consequences

CERD Committee finds North Macedonia discriminated in relation to freedom of movement by passport confiscations that disproportionately impacted its Roma citizens docstore.ohchr.org/SelfServices...

How about this: An entirely sensible and constructive immigration management solution for South Africa-Lesotho travel and work groundup.org.za/article/leso...

Good. www.equalnationalityrights.org/261185-2/

💥Introducing our #Strategy 2026–2030: Catalysing change with and for stateless people. We believe #change comes through collective action, led by those directly affected, challenging #injustice at its roots. Read more 👉 files.institutesi.org/ISI_STRATEGY...

Born here. Unrecognized. Unregistered Americans lack proof of identity & access to basic rights. This is how statelessness happens. New reporting by The Guardian 🔗https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/apr/21/unregistered-americans-sovereign-citizen

Join @bronwenmanby.bsky.social, Sharon Cowan, Ruvi Ziegler & me today at IALS for the launch of Devyani Prabhat’s fantastic new @uolpress.bsky.social book Migrating Borders and Citizenship in Law. Chaired by IALS Director Carl Stychin. @ials.bsky.social All welcome! ials.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

Rainer Baubock: "although the climate crisis will feed into migration flows within and across states, these are unlikely to generate or require structural changes of citizenship status.... The exception is the case of Pacific Island states...." www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

New episode of #CalledToTheBar: assassination in international law. Tamsin Paige, Douglas Guilfoyle, Alonso Gurmendi & Emma Lush unpack drone strikes, target lists. Has killing individuals has become the “new black” in statecraft? And what does the law actually say? soundcloud.com/calledtotheb...

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For Roma families in Montenegro, no ID means no doctor, no work, no school. 🛑 New reforms aim to break this "vicious cycle" of statelessness, but promises mean nothing without execution. Until an ID is in hand, the cycle continues. www.errc.org/news/beyond-... #RomaRights #Montenegro #Statelessness

Does the Italy/Albania asylum deal breach EU law? Report from and analysis of the latest CJEU hearings on the issue, by Eleonora Celoria, @andreinadeleo.bsky.social and Marcella Ferri eulawanalysis.blogspot.com/2026/04/test...

Earlier today I was reminded of one of the most metaphysical government documents that exists.

Kenya National Assembly Public Petitions Committee recommends that the Ministry of Interior and National Administration "finalizes evaluation of recognition of the Pare Peoples of Kenya as a tribe" citizenshiprightsafrica.org/en/report-on...

CitizenshipRightsAfrica.org website search and other functions back up and running (more or less) after several months of breakdown. Thanks to Compufreak.co.za

Political Organization in Pre-Colonial Africa by Soeren J. Henn & James A. Robinson: "In 1880 there were probably 45,000 independent polities which were rarely organized on ethnic lines. At most 2% of these could be classified as states." www.nber.org/papers/w34546

#NewBlog 'Sinking Sovereignty: The Legal Vacuum for Climate-Displaced Populations in the South Pacific and Bangladesh' by Radia Nowsin Available here: rli.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2026/04/15/s... #Bangladesh #ClimateRefugees #ClimateDisplacement #Displacement #Statelessness

Brontosaurus, obvs

Of Interest: Botswana 🇧🇼 Burkina Faso 🇧🇫 Burundi 🇧🇮 Central African Republic 🇨🇫 Chad 🇹🇩 Comoros 🇰🇲 Republic of the Congo 🇨🇬 Djibouti 🇩🇯 Eritrea 🇪🇷 Equatorial Guinea 🇬🇶 Gabon 🇬🇦 Guinea-Conakry 🇬🇳 Lesotho 🇱🇸 Liberia 🇱🇷 Mauritania 🇲🇷 Mauritius 🇲🇺 São Tomé and Príncipe 🇸🇹 Niger 🇳🇪 Seychelles 🇸🇨 Somalia 🇸🇴 South Sudan 🇸🇸

🇷🇼 Sahara marocain : La République de Sao Tomé-et-Principe soutient la marocanité du Sahara et appuie le plan d’autonomie sous souveraineté marocaine com [RNA] #Afropages

Almost a quarter of a million Syrians in Germany have naturalised in recent years; hundreds of thousands more will do so. The notion that they should be sent back, as the German chancellor has suggested, is implausible

New Blog Alert ⏰ Is the new Syrian government finally delivering justice? Thomas McGee takes a critical look at Decree No. 13 and what it means for Kurdish rights Is this meaningful redress, or another tactical concession to a long-marginalised community❓ 📑 tinyurl.com/2ja4jhz3

SA Deputy Minister of Justice Andries Nel not a dual US citizen: one of the actual cases where a child of diplomats born in the US (in this case) is not therefore 'subject to the jurisdiction thereof' and thus not born a citizen www.gov.za/news/media-s...

⭐ SCHOLARSHIP FOR THE MA HUMAN RIGHTS ⭐ We're honoured to offer the Yusuf Ali Scholarship to students resident in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh to enable one individual to study on the MA Human Rights. www.london.ac.uk/study/fees-f... #Scholarship #HumanRights #India #Pakistan #Bangladesh

'The unusual move, normally associated with alleged terrorists and dangerous gangsters, came after Bullen was stopped by police at Luton airport and questioned on suspicion of being involved in hostile activity on behalf of a foreign state.' www.thetimes.com/article/461a...

Pleased this is finally published: survey of developments in international law on nationality & statelessness updating @peterspiro.bsky.social 's 2011 survey @ajil.bsky.social & responding to more recent articles by Neha Jain & Michelle Foster & Timnah Rachel Baker www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

THIS WEEK: The Ontario Court of Appeal ruled against Tanzanian families seeking justice for alleged killings, beatings and torture at Barrick’s North Mara gold mine. The lawyers representing the plaintiffs will now take the fight to Canada's Supreme Court. Our comment: raid-uk.org/tanzanians-s...

Council of Europe calls for greater transparency and stronger oversight of how online platforms uphold their human rights responsibilities towards users. Read the recommendation here go.coe.int/J5r8f

Pleased this is finally published: survey of developments in international law on nationality & statelessness updating @peterspiro.bsky.social 's 2011 survey @ajil.bsky.social & responding to more recent articles by Neha Jain & Michelle Foster & Timnah Rachel Baker www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Ghana: National ID Becomes Digital Wallet, Transforming Payments africa-news-agency.com/ghana-nation...

South African cabinet approves revised white paper on immigration and citizenship - including 'objective criteria for naturalisation', a Citizenship Advisory Panel (CAP) to advise on applications, and a 'point-based system' for economic pathways to citizenship. www.gov.za/news/media-s...

Third Country Deportation Watch - facts & figures on US forced removals to states other than the state of nationality of the person concerned (in Africa: Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Eswatini, Ghana, Liberia, Libya, Rwanda, South Sudan, Uganda) www.thirdcountrydeportationwatch.org

The US Administration has shattered our refugee program and disposed of it entirely. A program built over generations by Conservatives and Liberals. It then created an essentially *whites only* immigration channel, admitting 4,500 people whose race is the principal qualification.

Rwanda: 'By the 2027 deadline, banks, hospitals, telecom companies, and government institutions are expected to use the [Single Digital ID] authentication system.' www.newtimes.co.rw/article/3439...

@aljazeera.com story on small community of #stateless people of Ghanaian descent living in Gambia - previously granted ID cards, now taken away www.aljazeera.com/features/202...

The number of people who acquired the citizenship of an EU country in 2024 increased by 55 per cent compared to 2014.

Nationality news from Syria (1) - sex discrimination under discussion (at least): syrianobserver.com/society/syri...

The colonial history of identification systems in Africa still lurks within the new #digitalid systems as they are rolled out …

Over 100 International Law Experts Warn: U.S. Strikes on Iran Violate UN Charter and May Be War Crimes www.justsecurity.org/135423/profe...

Including an image of diamond miner being chased by a police officer shouting “Hi! Waar’s yo pas” ! What you are looking for really shapes what you see.

Gabon's new nationality code joins the minority of states founding nationality on indigenous 'autochtone' descent - though also providing for rights based on birth in the territory and protection against statelessness citizenshiprightsafrica.org/ordonnance-n...

the map is also inaccurate. For example, most of former French West Africa and Sierra Leone has a version of birthright citizenship (second generation born in the territory) so should be blue; also Mozambique

With a record number of countries represented at MAGA World Cup, many players have switched citizenship to qualify with country of (grand)parents… some losing their real citizenship and now count as foreigners in their own country, creating problems for themselves and their clubs. 😂

Citizenship in the News 📰🇷🇸🇷🇺 Serbia Begins Issuing Passports to Russians Left Stateless After Renouncing Citizenship: These individuals had been stuck in a legal "gray zone" for several years, living without official documents or a clear legal status united24media.com/latest-news/...

📣 🎉Today is the official release day of my book, even tho many of you have it in hand already. 🙏 to all who purchased. Availability: Amazon has the paper w/ discount, Bookshop/OUP on back order. Should be an e-version that is missing. I will check w/ my press. More: www.annaolaw.com/book-migrati...