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Stateless-led answer to statelessness
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Apatride Network is run by stateless people for stateless people, giving voice of our views, providing ground-up expertise on statelessness, and dreaming of equal human rights in the European Union. We raise awareness of statelessness, clear up misconceptions therein, and empower stateless people as participants rather than mere objects of discussion. Our work focuses on guest lectures at universities and other relevant venues, publication of academic and media articles, advocacy, legal assistance, training for lawyers, and leading impact projects that target statelessness barriers.
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Stateless in the European Union
The European Union estimates 399,283 people that are “determined stateless or of undetermined nationality.“ Most are native Europeans with deep roots in Europe, being deprived of an equal right to nationality based on discrimination or bureaucratic inadequacies beyond own control. The number is a bare minimum estimate: data and the visibility of the topic remains poor due to obstruction from state actors that cause statelessness, power imbalances, and lack of representation of affected populations.
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Apatride Network continues to lead the way in systemically raising awareness on statelessness. This time around, we provided two separate lectures in Finland, at the Åbo Akademi University and University of Turku. The former focused on presenting statelessness in general, covering elementary details of the human rights issue, inaccurate narratives surrounding it, and real experiences of stateless people in dealing with it. At the University of Turku, the focus was placed on the legal concepts involved in statelessness, their historical contexts, overlooked interplay of causes and effects, political machinations, and continued shortcomings of international community to address the critical issue.