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buslihrc.bsky.social @buslihrc.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Comments on the draft Recommendations are also accepted until December 15! Learn more here: law.unimelb.edu.au/centres/stat...
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Public Consultation: Nationality and Statelessness in the Context of Climate Change
Public Consultation: Nationality and Statelessness in the Context of Climate Change
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buslihrc.bsky.social @buslihrc.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
After missing the 1.5º C #climate goal earlier this year, this effort is now all the more important. Register here:
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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
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buslihrc.bsky.social @buslihrc.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
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
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buslihrc.bsky.social @buslihrc.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
#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...
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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 ...
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buslihrc.bsky.social @buslihrc.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
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.
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buslihrc.bsky.social @buslihrc.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
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/
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buslihrc.bsky.social @buslihrc.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
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...
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buslihrc.bsky.social @buslihrc.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
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
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buslihrc.bsky.social @buslihrc.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
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...
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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…
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buslihrc.bsky.social @buslihrc.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
"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... (6/6)
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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 ...
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buslihrc.bsky.social @buslihrc.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
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” (5/6)
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buslihrc.bsky.social @buslihrc.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
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... (4/6)
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buslihrc.bsky.social @buslihrc.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
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)
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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:
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buslihrc.bsky.social @buslihrc.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
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... (2/6)
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Video shows ICE agents violently detain Worcester mom and daughter
YouTube video by NBC10 Boston
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buslihrc.bsky.social @buslihrc.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
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)
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buslihrc.bsky.social @buslihrc.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
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... (5/5)
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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’.
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buslihrc.bsky.social @buslihrc.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
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... (4/5)
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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...
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buslihrc.bsky.social @buslihrc.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
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... (3/5)
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KUNA : Commission: 434 individuals stripped of Kuwaiti citizenship - Security - 01/05/2025
كونا 2018, جميع الحقوق محفوظة
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buslihrc.bsky.social @buslihrc.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
This process has been explained by a peer of mine in a recent blog post buslahr.medium.com/from-citizen... (2/5)
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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…
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buslihrc.bsky.social @buslihrc.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
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. (1/5)
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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…
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Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion @institute-si.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
🌍 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
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Youth Statement for Gender Equality in Nationality Laws - البيان الشبابي
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buslihrc.bsky.social @buslihrc.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
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. (8/8)
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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.
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buslihrc.bsky.social @buslihrc.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
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... (7/8)
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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.
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buslihrc.bsky.social @buslihrc.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
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... (6/8)
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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...
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buslihrc.bsky.social @buslihrc.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
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... (5/8)
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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 [...]
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buslihrc.bsky.social @buslihrc.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
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... (4/8)
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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.
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buslihrc.bsky.social @buslihrc.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
#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). (3/8)
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buslihrc.bsky.social @buslihrc.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
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... (2/8)
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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.
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buslihrc.bsky.social @buslihrc.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
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. (1/8)
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buslihrc.bsky.social @buslihrc.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
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... (5/5)
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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.
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buslihrc.bsky.social @buslihrc.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
We were very grateful that Dr. Vergara-Figueroa also took the time to discuss issues of Statelessness and ongoing efforts to advocate for recognition of Dominican Citizenship for Dominicans of Haitian descent with the Dominican organization Reconoci.do www.instagram.com/reconoci.do/ (4/5)
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Reconoci.Do – Movimiento de Jóvenes Dominicanos de Ascendencia Haitiana que luchan por la reivindicación de sus derechos y el derecho a la nacionalidad
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buslihrc.bsky.social @buslihrc.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Much of that recent work documenting Colombian history, culture, legal background and minorities can be found here in a series of new special publications (in spanish) www.icesi.edu.co/editorial/ca... (3/5)
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Ediciones especiales - Editorial Universidad Icesi
Content filed under the Ediciones especiales category.
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buslihrc.bsky.social @buslihrc.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
and the equitable development of education systems in rural areas of Colombia, bsky.app/profile/rodi... (2/5)
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buslihrc.bsky.social @buslihrc.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Thank you to @bupardeeschool.bsky.social for hosting Dr. Aurora Vergara-Figueroa www.instagram.com/aurora_verga... last week, for a presentation of her recent work in international scholarship, documentation of Afro-Colombian History (1/5)
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buslihrc.bsky.social @buslihrc.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Hello! My name is Ben Pelon and I’ll be sharing themes and concerns relating to #Statelessness, highlighting key challenges globally by looking at The Dominican Republic and Kuwait in order to name some of the human rights violations we see and are at risk of systematizing in the United States.
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ICJP @icjpalestine.com · 07/02/2025
Trump's sanctions on the ICC are a brazen attack on international law. There can be no equivocation or hesitation in response to this. The UK Government must demonstrate principled leadership by standing firm against Trump’s coercive tactics. www.icjpalestine.com/2025/02/07/t...
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Trump’s sanctions on ICC are a brazen attack on international law, the UK must stand with the court - ICJP
President Trump's sanctions on the ICC must be met with firm, principled leadership by the UK Government, unequivocally supporting the court.
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buslihrc.bsky.social @buslihrc.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
The Global Alliance to End Statelessness is mobilizing civil society organizations & stakeholders in the MENA region to address the urgent crisis of statelessness. Collaborative action is key to securing legal identity, rights, and dignity for all. dussrc.wordpress.com/2025/01/20/i...
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Introducing the Global alliance to End Statelessness to the civil society organizations and other stakeholders working in MENA Region
Statelessness The DUSSRC Research Centre’s Cultural Sustainability Department Council formally announced its joining as a Network Civil Society member Here to the MENA Statelessness Network o…
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European Network on Statelessness @enstatelessness.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Don’t miss our annual #StatelessnessIndex webinar updating on statelessness developments in Europe! Find out more and register: buff.ly/3E6CU7y
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buslihrc.bsky.social @buslihrc.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
This blogpost by a BU Law IHRC student explores how gender discrimination in nationality laws endangers women's safety and restricts their autonomy. buslahr.medium.com/why-national...
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Why Nationality Rights Protect Women’s Safety
Since its inception, the Statelessness Project of Boston University International Human Rights Clinic (IHRC) has advocated for the adoption…
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buslihrc.bsky.social @buslihrc.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
When nationality laws deny women the right to pass on citizenship, they create legal limbo for children, fuel gender inequality, and put families at risk of statelessness.
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buslihrc.bsky.social @buslihrc.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
This week, we will explore #Statelessness, highlight recent progress and key challenges, and share updates on the Global Alliance to End Statelessness.
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buslihrc.bsky.social @buslihrc.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Hello! I am a student-attorney at BU IHRC, and I am excited to be posting on behalf of IHRC this week! I am working on topics of Statelessness in the UAE as part of a larger project mapping statelessness across the MENA region.
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