On 25 March, the Refugee Advice and
Casework Service (RACS) and Peter
McMullin Centre on Statelessness (Peter
McMulin Centre) organized a virtual
event to launch their report “A Place
to Call Home” which highlights the
legal and practical barriers to accessing
citizenship faced by stateless refugee
children born in Australia. Linked to
the report, RACS, the Peter McMullin
Centre and the Melbourne Law School
Clinics at the University of Melbourne
launched the Stateless Children
Legal Clinic to offer legal support to
stateless children in their application for
Australian citizenship.
From 17 to 23 February, the Peter
McMullin Centre on Statelessness,
with support from UNHCR, organized
its third annual Intensive Statelessness
Course. The course, which was held
virtually, provided participants with
knowledge, skills and practical tools to
address statelessness.
The Parliamentary Committee on Administration and National Security of Kenya meets
with the stateless Pemba community to discuss their situation. © Kenya Human Rights
Commission
Following a 2020 petition for the
recognition of the stateless Pemba
as Kenyan nationals hearings were
held, in February and March 2021,
by the Parliamentary Committee on
Administration and National Security
to gather historical information on the
stateless Pemba population and their
presence in Kenya. The Committee
has now requested UNHCR and the
Kenyan Human Rights Commission to
support the compilation of a community
register. This will be presented to the
Committee and the National Task Force
on the Identification and Registration of
Stateless Persons, which will support
efforts to address their statelessness.
Consultations continued at the meeting between the Parliamentary Committee on
Administration and National Security of Kenya and the Pemba community © Kenya
Human Rights Commission
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