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Human Rights Comment
Several hundred thousand people in Europe are stateless – they need extra protection
02/08/2011
Strasbourg
Having a nationality is a basic human right – so basic that it amounts to a “right to have rights”. The tragedy of persons without nationality gained attention after World War II and a first United Nations treaty was agreed in 1954 on the Status of Stateless Persons to be be followed by another...
Human Rights Comment
Stateless Roma: no documents – no rights
17/08/2010
Strasbourg
Tens of thousands of Roma live in Europe without a nationality. Lacking birth certificates, identity cards, passports and other documents, they are often denied basic rights such as education, healthcare, social assistance and the right to vote. The exclusion and marginalisation that Roma persons...
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