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Useful resources on statelessness in Europe
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efworld is the leading source of information related to refugee and statelessness issues:
http://www.refworld.org/statelessness.html. You can find legislation on nationality in European
countries, research papers on statelessness in Europe, from UNHCR or other sources, as well as
the relevant international instruments.
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NHCR Global Campaign to End Statelessness website: http://ibelong.unhcr.org.
è UNHCR e-learning course is an important tool of broader awareness-raising, which is a vital
element for reaching the goal of ending statelessness. This course is free and open to everyone.
First register here: https://goo.gl/y2BFQb and then access the course here: https://goo.gl/D887Ct.
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NHCR, Nationality and Statelessness: Handbook for Parliamentarians N° 22, July 2014:
http://www.refworld.org/docid/53d0a0974.html.
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NHCR, Handbook on Protection of Stateless Persons, 30 June 2014:
http://www.refworld.org/docid/53b676aa4.html.
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NHCR, Guidelines on Statelessness N° 4: Ensuring Every Child’s Right to Acquire a Nationality
through Articles 1-4 of the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness, 21 December
2012: http://www.refworld.org/docid/50d460c72.html.
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NHCR, Good Practices Paper – Action 1: Resolving Existing Major Situations of Statelessness,
2015: http://goo.gl/aABMeM.
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NHCR, Good Practices Paper – Action 2: Ensuring that No Child is Born Stateless, 2017:
http://www.refworld.org/docid/58cfab014.html.
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NHCR, Good Practices Paper – Action 6: Establishing Statelessness Determination Procedures
to Protect Stateless Persons, 2016: http://www.refworld.org/docid/57836cff4.html%20.
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NHCR, Good Practices Paper – Action 9: Acceding to the UN Statelessness Conventions, 2015:
http://goo.gl/fPkzfy.
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NHCR, OSCE, Handbook on Statelessness in the OSCE area: International Standards and Good
Practices, 2017: http://www.refworld.org/docid/58b81c404.html.
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he UNHCR-EUDO database on citizenship laws gives an overview of nationality legislation
in most European countries and their compliance with international standards on safeguards
against statelessness: http://eudo-citizenship.eu/databases.
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uropean Network on Statelessness (ENS): http://www.statelessness.eu.
March 2018
Published by UNHCR Bureau for Europe
Brussels, Belgium
www.unhcr.org
Photos on the cover in alphabetical order: © UNHCR / Benjamin Loyseau, Darrin Zammit Lupi,
France Malavolta, Ika Pirveli, Kakhaber Shartava, Miomir Laban, Nevenka Lukin, Nino Kajaia,
Roland Schönbauer.