ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
This Guide was developed by Dr. Bronwen Manby in collaboration with UNHCR and the Open Society Justice
Initiative. The Guide was created in consultation with a group of experts from civil society organizations and academia.
These included Adilet Legal Clinic; The AIRE Centre; Americas Network on Nationality and Statelessness (Red ANA);
Apatride Network; Association des Femmes Juristes de Côte d’Ivoire; Center for Justice and International Law;
Corporacion Opcion Legal; East African Law Society; European Council on Refugees and Exiles; European Network
on Statelessness; European Roma Rights Centre; Family Frontiers; Katiba Institute; Lawyers for Human Rights; MENA
Statelessness Network (Hawiati); Nationality for All; O’Neill Institute; OBMICA (Caribbean Migrants Observatory);
Pan African Lawyers Union; Peter McMullin Centre on Statelessness Southern African Nationality Network; Temple
University; United Stateless; and University of Cape Town Legal Clinic. Special thanks to Laura Bingham (formerly
of the Open Society Justice Initiative and director of Institute for Law, Innovation & Technology), Temple University
Beasley School of Law; Anne Laakko and Carole Dahan who led the work on this Guide at UNHCR; and all those
who agreed to be interviewed for their perspectives on litigating the right to a nationality in different national and
international fora.
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