Vu à la gare de #Fribourg Suisse (décembre 2015) :
#armée_du_salut #apatridie #campagne #pauvreté #SDF #sans-abris #affiche #sans-patrie
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Vivere senza una patria
Le Nazioni Unite stimano che nel mondo più di dieci milioni di persone siano senza patria. Le ragioni sono diverse, e la discriminazione e l’intolleranza sono fattori strettamente legati a questa drammatica situazione che nega alcuni diritti fondamentali a singoli individui e a intere comunità.
Il fotografo statunitense Greg Constantine ha viaggiato per dieci anni documentando le storie delle famiglie apolidi in giro per il mondo. E ha raccolto le loro testimonianze nel libro, uscito nel 2015, Nowhere people, tra immagini, poesie, e canzoni appartenenti alla cultura di ogni comunità.
Dal Bangladesh alla Birmania, dalla Serbia al Kenya, l’obiettivo del progetto è quello di documentare una realtà di persone che “spesso non sono nemmeno rifugiate e non hanno mai attraversato una frontiera”, spiega Constantine. Ma che in molti casi non possono lavorare legalmente, né avere un conto in banca, o ricevere aiuti statali. Senza passaporto o documenti di identificazione, queste famiglie non possono nemmeno viaggiare per costruirsi una vita migliore in un altro paese.
“È stata la perseveranza e la voglia di sopravvivenza di queste persone che mi ha spinto negli anni a proseguire e portare a termine il progetto”, ha raccontato Constantine.
Il fotografo e photo editor di Mother Jones, #Mark_Murrmann, accosta il libro di Constantine, nelle sue motivazioni e nella sua ampiezza, ai progetti In cammino di Sebastião Salgado sui rifugiati e i migranti, e a quello di Ed Kashi La maledizione dell’oro nero sull’industria di petrolio in Nigeria.
▻http://www.internazionale.it/foto/2015/12/10/apolidi-greg-constantine-foto
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Protecting Stateless Persons from Arbitrary Detention
Evidence shows that detention of stateless people is a worrying trend across Europe. This is happening despite the fact that protection against arbitrary detention is well entrenched under international and regional law, as is the protection of stateless persons.
There is a huge gulf between state obligations to respect international human rights standards and the actual realisation of those rights in practice. The lack of protection and the growth of the immigration detention industry has left many vulnerable to grave human rights abuse.
▻http://www.statelessness.eu/protecting-stateless-persons-from-detention#publication#détention_administrative #migrations #asile #réfugiés #Pologne #apatridie #Malte #Pays-Bas
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Les aliens de Lettonie
▻http://webdoc.rfi.fr/lettonie-russie-aliens-russes-non-citoyens
Après cinquante ans d’occupation soviétique, la Lettonie recouvre en 1991 son indépendance. Aux côtés des Lettons « ethniques », vivent dans ce petit pays niché au bord de la mer Baltique, aux confins de l’Europe de l’Est, des Russes, des Ukrainiens, des Biélorusses, des Polonais… Environ 800 000 citoyens d’un Etat – l’URSS – qui n’existe plus. Vingt-quatre ans plus tard, 260 000 d’entre eux, soit 13 % de la population totale, sont encore « non-citoyens ». Régulièrement, l’Union européenne, dont la Lettonie est membre depuis 2004, presse Riga de trouver une solution à cette situation jugée préoccupante. Mais ce n’est pas si simple…
#lettonie #non_citoyens #citoyenneté #apatridie #russie #minorités
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Les #apatrides de la frontière #indo-bangladaise sont désormais pleinement citoyens - Libération
▻http://www.liberation.fr/monde/2015/08/01/les-apatrides-de-la-frontiere-indo-bengladaise-sont-desormais-pleinement-Les enclaves territoriales autour de la frontière indo-bangladaise sont réintégrées depuis vendredi à l’Etat dans lequel elles sont situées. Les 50 000 personnes y habitant peuvent désormais être citoyens à part entière.
« C’est le moment le plus important de ma vie (...) Je vais devenir citoyen bangladais avec les droits que cela suppose » déclare Parul Khatun, une habitante de l’enclave indienne de Kot Bajni, à l’AFP. Comme elle, ils étaient environ 50 000 selon un recensement de 2011 à vivre dans celles parsemées autour de la frontière indo-bangladaise, et a être de facto apatrides.
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Civil rights granted to children of Jordanians and foreigners
▻http://www.alaraby.co.uk/english/news/2014/11/11/civil-rights-granted-to-children-of-jordanians-and-foreignersCivil rights granted to children of Jordanians and foreigners
By: Mohammad al-Fadilat
Date of publication: 9 November, 2014
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Jordan, women’s rights, passports, Abdallah Ensour
Children born to Jordanian women married to foreign men will be given some state privileges, but won’t adopt nationality of the Hashemite kingdom.
Jordanian women married to foreigners achieved a limited victory on Sunday, when Prime Minister Abdallah Ensour announced an easing of restrictions faced by children in mixed-nationality marriages.Jordan, however, will not ease its strict citizenship rules to allow female citizens to pass their nationality on to their children or partners.
Hundreds of thousands of children of Jordanian mothers and foreign fathers, including many who have lived in the kingdom their whole lives, will now enjoy basic civil rights. But the move falls short of the demands of campaigners to grant automatic citizenship.
Interior Minister Hussein Majali said that the law would benefit 355,923 children of 88,983 mothers.
Partial rights
Children of Jordanian mothers will now have free education in government schools until secondary level, free healthcare in state hospitals, and the right to work in jobs previously restricted to Jordanian citizens. They will also be able to invest in the kingdom and own property, obtain a private driver’s licence, and be granted a special national ID card.
Mothers who want to claim these rights for their children must have been residents in the country for at least six months.
There are 52,660 Jordanian women married to Palestinian men - as well as 8,486 married to Egyptians, 7,731 to Syrians, 4,549 to Saudis, 2,822 to Iraqis, 2,516 to Americans and 2,048 to Lebanese, according to the latest official statistics.
Demographic imbalance
Demographics appear to be the main motive for denying Jordanian women the same citizenship rights as men. The official justification is that any easing of the law would encourage an influx of Palestinians into the kingdom. Jordanian officials also say that it could lead to Israel expelling Palestinians to Jordan.
[Changing nationality laws] could change the demographic balance and might lead to depopulating Palestine
– Prime Minister Abdallah Ensour
“[Changing nationality laws] could change the demographic balance and might lead to depopulating Palestine… the eases in restrictions will take into account meeting the needs of the children and not neglecting the rights of Palestinians,” said Ensour.
“The eases to restrictions for the children of these women are a culmination of joint efforts between the government and the efforts of those pushing for a parliamentary initiative to ease restrictions, showing the continuous cooperation between the executive and the legislative branches.”Jordan tightened nationality restrictions for Palestinians after the first intifada in 1989, when it severed its residual administrative and financial ties to the West Bank, amid sweeping popular support for the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO).
MP Mostafa Hamarneh, who has led the campaign for civil rights of children in parliament, told al-Araby al-Jadeed: “This was a landmark decision and is an important step towards equality between men and women.”
Falling short
Activists welcomed this as a first step in what they hoped would be changes that could eventually lead to granting full citizenship rights for their children.
“The decision is an important step forward to attaining rights for the children of Jordanian women,” said campaigner Nima al-Habashneh. “The statements of officials are an explicit recognition of the rights of women and their children… the ease in restrictions is only the starting point to obtaining more rights that will hopefully culminate in granting nationality.”
Habashneh’s “My mother is Jordanian and her nationality is a right for me” campaign started in 2006 - though critics have argued that, if successful, it would turn Jordan into an alternative homeland for Palestinians.
Although Ensour stressed that the new move would not grant nationality, he did say officials will not deny the rights of those who have already applied for Jordanian citizenship.
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Counting the uncountable
OXFORD, 24 July 2015 (IRIN) - How do you design effective policies and programmes to help vulnerable populations when you don’t know how many people you’re dealing with?
▻http://www.irinnews.org/report/101783/counting-the-uncountable
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A Generation of Syrians Born in Exile Risk a Future of Statelessness
Doctor Nazir’s pregnant wife arrived in Turkey with a one-year old and no documentation. They had fled the unbearable bombardment of their home town, Aleppo, while Dr. Nazir remained in Syria to work in an underground field hospital. Dr. Nazir had defected from the Syrian military in 2012, and was officially declared dead the same year. Because he no longer legally existed, Dr. Nazir was unable to register his 2013 marriage or the birth of his first child in Aleppo. When his second baby was born in Turkey in 2015, shortly after his wife’s arrival, she could not file an application for the baby’s birth certificate because Dr. Nazir remained in Syria and she had no legal proof of her marriage or her husband’s birth certificate.
▻http://www.statelessness.eu/sites/www.statelessness.eu/files/styles/s/public/images/blogs/Sarnata%20blog_Turkey%20Birth%20Registration%20front%20page.jpg?itok=L
▻http://www.statelessness.eu/blog/generation-syrians-born-exile-risk-future-statelessness
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Palestinian #refugees and the current Syrian conflict: from settled refugees to stateless asylum seekers?
The Syrian conflict has caused the forced displacement of many refugees. In November 2014, UNRWA[1] estimated the total number of Palestinian refugees displaced inside Syria just over 250,000 (half of the total registered in Syria), a large part originating from Yarmouk camp in Damascus. About 12% of the registered refugees have left the country to Lebanon (50,000), Jordan (6000) and Egypt (9000) mainly. About 250,000 are still in Syria, in safer places, but without any guarantee that the front line will not catch up. 8000 refugees whose homes were destroyed live in UNRWA facilities, schools in general. Some IDPs were able to return to their homes, but the number of new refugees moved en masse remains higher.
▻http://allegralaboratory.net/palestinian-refugees-and-the-current-syrian-conflict-from-settled
#réfugiés #Syrie #palestinien #asile #migration #apatrides #apatridie-
v. aussi :
La vulnérabilité des réfugiés palestiniens à la lumière de la crise syrienneLa présente contribution met en lumière l’impact de la crise syrienne sur les réfugiés palestiniens, tant en Syrie que dans les pays voisins, où certains d’entre eux ont trouvé refuge (Liban, Jordanie et Égypte en particulier). Le conflit syrien s’inscrit dans une histoire régionale plus longue qui a fréquemment vu les réfugiés être impliqués – souvent comme victimes, parfois comme protagonistes – dans les conflits à répétition qui ont ensanglanté le Moyen-Orient ; et c’est souvent à leurs dépens que se sont établis les nouveaux équilibres politiques. Si la majeure partie des régimes arabes affichent un soutien appuyé à la cause palestinienne, et en particulier au droit au retour des réfugiés, le statut précaire de ces derniers, en particulier en situation de crise, montre le peu de soutien dont ils bénéficient en réalité. Priment avant tout les intérêts politiques, économiques et sécuritaires des États d’accueil en fonction de la conjoncture régionale et internationale.
▻http://www.cairn.info/revue-confluences-mediterranee-2013-4-page-95.htm
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The World’s Stateless
▻http://www.institutesi.org/worldsstateless.pdf
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Map: Every 10 minutes, a stateless baby is born
According to the United Nations, there are roughly “10 million people worldwide who lack a nationality and the human rights protections that go with it.” This month, the U.N.’s refugee agency, UNHCR, signaled its desire to end the problem of statelessness within the next 10 years. But as the map below shows, it’s a very big problem.
▻http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2014/11/14/map-every-10-minutes-a-stateless-baby-is-born
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Côte d’Ivoire : près de 700 000 apatrides selon les Nations unies - Afrique - RFI
▻http://www.rfi.fr/afrique/20141109-cote-ivoire-apatrides-hcr-700-000-lancement-campagne-enfants-abandonnes-/?ns_campaign=nl_AFRIQUE091114&ns_mchannel=newsletter&ns_source=emailvision&ns_li
Je savais que c’était un problème en Côte d’Ivoire, mais je ne savais pas que ça concernait un nombre aussi énorme.
« Être un apatride », cela veut dire vivre sans nationalité donc sans papiers. Or sans pièce d’identité, on ne peut pas par exemple s’inscrire à l’école, ouvrir un compte dans une banque ou encore se marier ou voter.
Selon le Haut Commissariat des Nations unies pour les réfugiés (HCR), il y a 10 millions d’apatrides dans le monde. Le HCR vient de lancer une campagne qui s’appelle « J’appartiens » pour tenter d’améliorer la situation d’ici dix ans. En Côte d’Ivoire, il y a 700 000 apatrides, notamment pour des raisons historiques.
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New Act is ‘woeful solution’, Dominican government continues to deprive hundreds of thousands of Dominicans of Haitian descent of their right to nationality, says MRG
▻http://www.minorityrights.org/12611/press-releases/new-act-is-woeful-solution-dominican-government-continues-to-depriveA new Act in the Dominican Republic will deny citizenship to Haitian descendants, despite some having been in the country for over 80 years. The Act requires unregistered children with Haitian lineage to present documents proving that they were born in the Dominican Republic, and is a woeful solution to the situation of hundreds of thousands of people deprived of their nationality following a Constitutional Court ruling last year, says Minority Rights Group International (MRG).
‘The Dominican government has deployed yet another obstacle for this community, who were once essential labour to toil in the sugar cane fields, but are now almost forgotten.’ says Sofia Olins, MRG’s Head of Cultural Programmes.
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27 countries limit a woman’s ability to pass citizenship to her child or spouse
To most Americans, citizenship, like DNA, seems like something a parent passes to a child without thought or effort. And indeed, for fathers around the world, that’s almost universally true.
▻http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/08/05/27-countries-limit-a-womans-ability-to-pass-citizenship-to-her-child-or#genre #citoyenneté #passeport #femmes #enfants #filiation #visualisation #carte
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#Apatridie = invisibilité en #Afrique_de_l’Ouest
DAKAR, 16 juillet 2014 (IRIN) - Au moins 750 000 personnes sont apatrides en Afrique de l’Ouest. C’est ce que révèle le Haut Commissariat des Nations Unies pour les réfugiés (HCR) qui appelle les gouvernements à faire davantage d’efforts dans l’attribution ou la reconnaissance de nationalité pour les personnes #apatrides, ainsi que dans l’amélioration des législations nationales, afin d’éviter les cas d’apatridie.
▻http://www.irinnews.org/fr/report/100355/apatridie-invisibilit%C3%A9-en-afrique-de-l-ouest
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#Livre, #parution : « Le #Droit de l’#apatridie, pratiques et controverses » par #Romuald_Likibi
Vous pouvez dores et déjà vous procurer l’ouvrage de Romuald Likibi « Le Droit de l’apatridie, pratiques et controverses« , qui contient une préface de Vincent TCHEN, Professeur de droit public (université du Havre)
▻http://www.asile.ch/vivre-ensemble/2013/12/17/le-droit-de-lapatridie-pratiques-et-controverses-par-romuald-likibi
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Centre d’actualités de l’ONU - Un enfant âgé de moins de cinq ans sur trois n’a pas d’existence officielle, s’alarme l’UNICEF
▻http://www.un.org/apps/newsFr/storyF.asp?NewsID=31659&Cr=UNICEF&Cr1=
11 décembre 2013 – À l’occasion de son 67ème anniversaire, observé mercredi, le Fonds des Nations Unies pour l’enfance (UNICEF) publie un nouveau rapport qui révèle que les naissances de près de 230 millions d’enfants, soit environ un enfant de moins de cinq ans sur trois dans le monde, n’ont jamais été enregistrées.
« L’enregistrement des naissances est plus qu’un simple droit. C’est ainsi que la société reconnaît l’identité et l’existence de chaque enfant », a souligné la Directrice générale adjointe de l’UNICEF, Geeta Rao Gupta. « L’enregistrement est également primordial pour garantir que les enfants ne seront pas oubliés, privés de leurs droits ou mis à l’écart des progrès de leur nation. »
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La République dominicaine « dénationalise » des milliers d’Haïtiens - DIPLOMATIE - FRANCE 24
►http://www.france24.com/fr/20131003-haiti-republique-dominicaine-nationalite-dechenace-transit-immigrLa semaine dernière, la plus haute juridiction dominicaine a décidé que « les enfants nés dans le pays de parents étrangers », depuis 1929, seraient déchus de la nationalité dominicaine.
Cette « dénationalisation » a suscité l’ire de Port-au-Prince et la stupéfaction de l’ONU. « La décision pourrait avoir des conséquences désastreuses pour les descendants d’Haïtiens en République dominicaine, plongeant des dizaines de milliers d’entre eux dans un vide constitutionnel qui en feraient des apatrides privés d’accès aux services de base », a souligné le Haut-Commissariat de l’ONU aux droits de l’Homme.
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Concrètement, cette décision « retire la nationalité dominicaine acquise par plus de 250 000 hommes et femmes descendants d’étrangers [haïtiens], présumés illégaux ou qui étaient en transit » dans le pays, a déclaré mardi 1er octobre l’association Mouvement socio-culturel pour les travailleurs haïtiens (MOSCTHA). Plus de 200 000 personnes qui deviendraient, de facto, apatrides. Cette mesure concerne aussi tous les autres étrangers, sans distinction d’origine. -
#Sri_Lanka: Tea workers demand land, angry over plan to lease it to businesses | Social Watch
►http://www.socialwatch.org/node/15450More than 300 homeless Sri Lankan tea estate workers marched to demand land and housing rights in the city of Kandy on Sunday 14th. They have been angered by a clause in the national budget which proposes leasing unused plantation land to businesses.
“Land rights are a dream for us,” said one of the marchers, 62-year-old Karuppaiya Nadaraja. “We have been living for 185 years without land of our own but we bring good income for the country with the world’s best black tea.”
He and his wife, who is also a tea harvester, earn US$110 a month to support a family of six.
An estimated 300,000 have been denied citizenship even though they were born in the country.
“Politicians cheat and mislead them, companies focus only on income generation without considering their needs,” said Chinthaka Rajapaksha of the Movement for National Land and Agricultural Reform.
“The fruits of their hard labor are pocketed by greedy plantation owners and politicians,” he said. “Their kids grow up malnourished and underweight.”
He urged the government to re-think plans to offer vacant plots for lease to businesses and to grant them to the workers in the 2013 budget, which will be announced in November.
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Latvia’s ‘aliens’ | minorities in focus
►http://minorityrights.wordpress.com/2012/09/28/latvias-aliensLatvia’s citizenship policy, which assigns almost a third of Latvian Russians non-citizen/alien status, prohibits non-citizens from taking part in many aspects of society, such as seeking employment, travelling abroad, or voting during national elections. Even though the Latvian government ratified the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities on 6 June 2005, there is still a considerable part of the Russian population who cannot freely participate in Latvian economic, political and cultural life.
[...]Being born into a Russian family from Latvia myself, I have been granted citizenship through my father, whereas my mother was a non-citizen until 2006. My uncle and my grandmother are still non-citizens. I asked my grandmother how it feels.
‘It is heartbreaking and unfair. It is like you have been born into a family and they don’t accept you as their child. The state, the government, and society is the family, and we, non-citizens, are unwanted and alienated children.’
