How to Protect ‘Invisible’ People
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Amal de Chickera, Head of Statelessness and Nationality Projects at the Equal Rights Trust, describes a new initiative calling for the adoption of international standards on the detention of stateless persons. For people who do not have a nationality, traveling across national borders poses the risk of being arbitrarily detained. ERT’s Draft Guidelines provide guidance on how states should address the detention of stateless persons in accordance with international human rights law and also recommend the implementation of national statelessness determination procedures.