About Being Without: Stories of Stateless in Kuwait (Refugees International, Oct. 2007) [text]
Asylum Rights Watch: Summary of responses June – September 2007 (Asylum Aid, Oct. 2007) [text]
Ethiopia: Addressing the rights and needs of people displaced by conflict (IDMC, Oct. 2007) [text]
A guide to the African Commission on human and peoples’ rights (Amnesty International, Nov. 2007) [text]...
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The European Council on Refugees and Exiles (ECRE) offers a useful weekly round-up of news on developments in Europe, at both the regional and national levels. The service was discontinued temporarily during the summer, but has now resumed operation once again with a September 15 update.
Here are links to some of the reports referenced in the update:
Country Reports (European Committee for the...
COHRE, Global Survey on Forced Evictions: Violations of Human Rights (Dec. 2006) [text]
Joint Committee on Human Rights, The Treatment of Asylum Seekers (House of Lords & House of Commons, 30 March 2007) [text]
Lambert, B. and C. Pougin de la Maisonneuve, UNHCR’s response to the Tsunami emergency in Indonesia and Sri Lanka, December 2004 - November 2006: An independent evaluation, PDES/2007/01...
As the authors write in this Forced Migration Review article, "Stateless persons do not register on the international community’s radar screen." Here are several recent publications that provide more information about the millions of people around the world who lack a nationality and who suffer discrimination and human rights violations as a result.Publications/reports:"Betwixt and Between: Refugees and Stateless Persons in Limbo," Refuge, vol. 22, no. 2 (Sept. 2005) [text]"Holes in the Rights Framework: Racial Discrimination, Citizenship, and the Rights of Noncitizens," Ethics & International Affairs, vol. 20, no. 3 (2006) [text]Lives on Hold: The Human Cost of Statelessness (Refugees International, 2005) [text]"Nationality and Reduction of Statelessness: International, Regional and...