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Short Course Palestine Refugees and International Law
15-16/03/2024 – Amman, Jordan
This is a two-day short course that places the Palestinian refugee case study within the broader context of the international human rights regime. It examines, within a human rights framework, the policies and practices of Middle Eastern states as they impinge upon Palestinian refugees.
Why Nationality Rights Protect Women’s Safety
26/05/2023
A blog by the Boston University School of Law’s International Human Rights Clinic, highlighting aspect of gender discrimination in nationality law, gender based violence, and women’s protection.
The Deadly Transit Through Morocco to Europe
26/05/2023
A blog by Boston University School of Law’s International Human Rights Clinic, addressing asylum seekers, migrants and refugees within the context of Morocco, and linking it to statelessness and access to nationality.
RANS MENA Newsletter, Issue 1, May 2023
18/05/2023
The Research and Advocacy Network on Statelessness in the MENA (RANS MENA) has issues its first newsletter. This first issue introduces the regional network and its platform (MENA Statelessness Platform), it also highlights the network’s latest activities and research outputs.
Webinar: “Citizenship, Nationality, and Stateless Issues in Algeria” on May 18, 2023
15/05/2023
This webinar will cover both good practices in addressing statelessness in Algeria, as well as remaining gaps. It will set this under the umbrella of issues common across the Middle East and North Africa region. The panelists will not only present the research conducted on Algeria as a part of this project, but also delve deeper into the risks of statelessness and the challenges related to accessing civil documentation and nationality among refugee and migrant communities. Moreover, panelists will discuss the lessons learned regarding gender discrimination in nationality laws.
Hybrid Workshop on “Access to Nationality in Morocco: Positive Progress & Remaining Barriers” on May 11, 2023
08/05/2023
The workshop will cover issues common across the Middle East and North Africa region with a focus on issues unique to Morocco. The clinic will present their own research as well, highlighting gender discrimination in nationality law, barriers in access to civil documentation, and difficulties faced by Refugee and Migrant communities in accessing nationality protection.
Webinar on “Citizenship, Nationality and Stateless Issues in Morocco” on April 12, 2023
06/04/2023
The webinar will feature speakers addressing statelessness issues common to the Middle East and North Africa region as well as those particular to Morocco, and share findings from Boston University’s International Human Rights Clinic’s Morocco team from their current research.
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KOBLI – An online platform for legal assistance by NRC
06/04/2023
KOBLI aims at making legal assistance more accessible and safer for refugees. It is an online platform, available through a web-browser or a mobile app, where legal experts publish information for displaced people in Lebanon. You can access KOBLI anonymously and autonomously from your phone or your computer, at any time. On KOBLI Lebanon, you will currently find information dedicated to Syrian refugees regarding: Civil documentation, Legal residency, and Employment rights.
The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination against Women Commend Bahrain on its National Action Plan
14/02/2023
The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women today concluded its consideration of the fourth periodic report of Bahrain, commending the State on its 10-year National Action Plan, while asking questions about child marriage and Bahraini women’s right to transmit nationality to their children.
UNHCR and Ministry of Interior conference in Baghdad to discuss the way forward to end statelessness in Iraq
19/01/2023
Thanks to its legal framework to reduce and prevent statelessness, thousands of stateless persons or those at risk of statelessness in Iraq have acquired Iraqi nationality over the years. However, some individuals are still suffering from the impact of not having the nationality of any country – which means they are stateless.
Palestine Refugees and International Law
18/01/2023
This two-day short course places the Palestinian refugee case study within the broader context of the international human rights regime. It examines, within a human rights framework, the policies and practices of Middle Eastern states as they impinge upon Palestinian refugees.
“Leave No One Behind” Conference
13/01/2023
At the end of the conference held by the Free Patriotic Movement on the Syrian refugee crisis, and after having tackled the file from its various angles, whether at the level of the legal framework of the problem … the Free Patriotic Movement presents a detailed set of recommendations.
UAE Violates Nationality Rights
13/01/2023
As the reputation of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) as the economic and touristic hub of the Middle East continues to grow, it continued to deprive stateless individuals of the right to nationality, impacting their access to a range of services.
‘Not recognized’: The stateless of Jordan’s Badia wait for citizenship
11/01/2023
Although the young man completed his higher education at Al-Bayt University, he faces many challenges in terms of employment opportunities, access to public services like healthcare, and the ability to travel, all due to one central challenge: Ramathan is stateless.
On International Human Rights Day UN Agencies and GCENR urge action to uphold gender equal nationality rights across the MENA Region
10/12/2022
Citizens’ equal right to pass their nationality to their children is a fundamental human right, one that is essential to advancing gender equality, children’s rights and wellbeing, and sustainable development, and to preventing statelessness. While women were historically denied the right to confer nationality, over the past several decades most nationality laws have been reformed to enable women and men to confer nationality on an equal basis.
The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination Commend Bahrain on Efforts to provide COVID19 Vaccination for All
18/11/2022
The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination today concluded its consideration of the combined eighth to fourteenth periodic report of Bahrain, with Committee Experts commending the State on efforts to provide COVID-19 vaccination for all, and asking questions on the practice of stripping persons of their Bahraini citizenship and protections for migrant workers.
Meeting of Local Actors on Statelessness in Lebanon
10/11/2022
IFI convened the local actors on statelessness in Lebanon, aimed at sharing current work on statelessness, including research and advocacy efforts. 18 international and local organizations discussed their work on statelessness, nationality rights and citizenship, as well as their willingness to collaborate to help improve the situation of those considered stateless in the region.
Births outside the records.. Syrian children in Lebanon
22/02/2022
A generation of Syrian refugees in Lebanon is living deprived of their most basic rights, shackled to every step they take. Hundreds of children and adolescents are not legally recognized, because they do not have identification papers, they are just names in this life.
UNHCR warns of risks of ‘invisible’ stateless not getting COVID vaccines
22/06/2021
Millions of stateless people around the world may miss out on COVID-19 vaccines because they lack identification papers and are essentially “invisible to authorities”.
المدير التنفيذي للمعهد العربي لحقوق الإنسان
هاجر شهبي حبشي
أستاذ مساعد في جامعة أربيل للفنون التطبيقية
عبدالله عمر ياسين
