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Bronwen Manby
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Nationality, statelessness, identification, human rights; Africa & international. Affiliations: @globalcit.bsky.social @icws-sas.bsky.social @lseid.bsky.social
https://citizenshiprightsafrica.org/
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Bronwen-Manby/research
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If passed, the EU Omnibus covering data and AI will be the most extraordinary reversal of digital rights in a generation.

Read our response to the official text of the EU Digital Omnibus Regulation Proposal⬇️

www.adalovelaceinstitute.org/news/our-res...
Our response to the official text of the EU Digital Omnibus Regulation Proposal
If passed, the Omnibus will be the most extraordinary reversal of digital rights in a generation
www.adalovelaceinstitute.org
November 19, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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#ECJ: A Member State’s police may decide, on the basis of internal rules, whether to keep the biometric and #DNA data of someone accused or suspected of a criminal offence #DataProtection 👉 curia.europa.eu/jcms/jcms/Jo...
Communiqués de presse - Cour de justice de l'Union européenne
Court of Justice of the European Union
curia.europa.eu
November 20, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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Me at the LRB blog on the atrocious refugee policy of Mahmood and Starmer
Christopher Bertram | ‘Core Protection’
Refugeehood is not supposed to be like this. The ideal envisaged by the Refugee Convention is that refugee status should...
www.lrb.co.uk
November 18, 2025 at 6:37 PM
US: New rule that passports must now reflect the sex on a person’s original birth certificate, reversing decades old policy #legalidentity
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/u...
New Passport Rule Sends Blunt and Sweeping Message to Trans Americans
www.nytimes.com
November 17, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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Happy Monday! AJIL Unbound's latest symposium "Africa's International Law of Democracy" is now online! Click here to begin reading: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
November 17, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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Had so much fun recording this podcast with Philippa Webb, Marko Milanovic & Nicolas Angelet. We discuss the legality of the US strikes on suspected drug boats and the UNRWA advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice. Take a listen!

www.ejiltalk.org/ejil-the-pod...
November 17, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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New GLOBALCIT study compares the conditions of the citizenship acquisition processes for first-generation immigrants and their descendants in 11 countries 🇦🇹🇧🇪🇩🇰🇫🇷🇩🇪🇮🇹🇱🇻🇳🇱🇵🇹🇸🇪🇬🇧

📰 Summary and Key Findings: tinyurl.com/56sknbxw
📖 Full Report: tinyurl.com/yc6cdszx
November 17, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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The Labour Government reeling off the same far-right talking points on immigration. And look who is celebrating. The far-right.

There is a political alternative that won’t ever scapegoat those fleeing war, persecution and torture

join.greenparty.org.uk
November 16, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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Stella Creasy MP writes that the asylum proposals of the Labour government are "performatively cruel" and likely to be ineffective in securing control or going after the smuggling gangs
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
ICE-style raids on Britain's streets: that's all Labour's brutal asylum reforms will achieve | Stella Creasy
If we want to ‘stop the boats’, we need to stop the BS when it comes to what creates refugees, and how to respond to them, says Labour MP Stella Creasy
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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There is no credible reason to think the 20 years vs 10 years of renewals is going to make a difference. This is all downside on integration in UK for nothing on pull factor impact. Whether 20 years seems fair or much too harsh may differ significantly across political perspectives!
November 16, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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The Labour government's proposals on temporary protection seem very close indeed to Priti Patel's 2022 proposals in analysis, in spirit and content.

Where Mahmood and Starmer go harder than Patel and Johnson is by arguing 10 years is too short; could return refugees after 10-19 years in Britain
November 16, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Protocol to the African Charter on HPR on the right to a nationality and the eradication of #statelessness in Africa adopted in Feb 2024 has official launch event at the AU HQ in Addis
November 14, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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The October issue of AJIL is now available online! This issue places special focus on the CPUS section, where members of the Board have written essays on the various policies and changes under the second Trump administration. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
November 14, 2025 at 1:29 PM
The impossibiliity of naturalisation in South Africa - available in law, completely blocked in practice - apartheid bureaucracy lives on in spirit #citizenshipinafrica www.dailymaverick.co.za/opinionista/...
Citizenship liminality and the bureaucracy of in-between
Is citizenship being purposefully throttled until the White Paper on Citizenship, Immigration and Refugee Protection finds political traction, which the GNU cannot provide in its current composition? ...
www.dailymaverick.co.za
November 14, 2025 at 3:38 PM
The unfinished struggle for gender equality in Ethiopia’s nationality law #equalnationality addisstandard.com/citizens-by-...
addisstandard.com
November 14, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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As an inherent part of war, protection of the dead has received little attention until now.

The new IRRC edition “Protection of the Dead” addresses that gap, focusing on contemporary wartime realities and humanitarian responses.

📚 Read the full edition: bit.ly/43vqz6N
Protection of the Dead
Whether lawful or unlawful, death is an inherent part of war - and has been throughout history. Yet, until now, IHL rules on the protection of the dead have received relatively little attention in sch...
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November 14, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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🎧In the first podcast episode, Living Without a Nationality, Mona, Farah, Halima & Sarah share their journeys, revealing what it means to raise children without #nationality & navigate life in legal limbo. Discover their stories of courage & belonging 👉 bit.ly/3JB9kdB
November 13, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Cheery stuff on AI & five collapse scenarios : Collapses of Trust, Order, Truth, Life & Value…
November 13, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Ethiopia repatriates over 500,000 citizens "facing difficult conditions across the Middle East, Africa, and Asian nations, including Myanmar." www.ebc.et/english/Home...
Ethiopia Repatriates Over 500,000 Citizens Amid Ongoing Crisis
Ethiopia Repatriates Over 500,000 Citizens Amid Ongoing Crisis
www.ebc.et
November 12, 2025 at 7:20 PM
ICYMI: Not in Our Name: Afrikaners Respond to the Misuse of Our Story in U.S. Politics www.afrikanersvirsa.co.za/en
Home | Afrikaners Vir Sa
www.afrikanersvirsa.co.za
November 12, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Burkina Faso: new biometric ID card will serve as the primary legal identification tool for every Burkinabé citizen, to be issued to children _from the age of five_ #legalidentity #digitalID
www.biometricupdate.com/202511/burki...
Burkina Faso introduces new biometric ID system in major digital leap | Biometric Update
The military leader of Burkina Faso has set a new biometric national ID card initiative in motion to replace the longstanding legacy identification system.
www.biometricupdate.com
November 12, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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Last week Robert Spano, Jens Elo Peters Rytter, @colmocinneide.bsky.social, @alicedonald.bsky.social and @profveronika.bsky.social discussed the future of the European Convention on Human Rights, including what Denmark has done.

Watch a recording of the event at @laws.ucl.ac.uk 👇
The Future of the ECHR - In Europe and UK
Speakers: Former Judge Robert Spano, Former President of European Court of Human Rights, Partner at Gibson Dunn Professor Jens Elo Peters Rytter, Professor of Constitutional Law, University of…
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November 10, 2025 at 5:00 PM