Bronwen Manby
@bronwenmanby.bsky.social
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
https://citizenshiprightsafrica.org/
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Bronwen-Manby/research
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The Trump admin says it aims to file 100-200 denaturalization cases per month, a huge increase. But these cases are hard to file and win, and require a lot of DOJ resources, and the DOJ is incredibly stretched thin already. So we’ll see; I have serious doubts about their ability to do this.
What this will mean, in practice, that if you are deemed an enemy of the administration, they will pore through your citizenship application paperwork looking for some reason to retroactively disqualify you.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/u...
Trump Administration Aims to Strip More Foreign-Born Americans of Citizenship
www.nytimes.com
December 17, 2025 at 11:00 PM
The Trump admin says it aims to file 100-200 denaturalization cases per month, a huge increase. But these cases are hard to file and win, and require a lot of DOJ resources, and the DOJ is incredibly stretched thin already. So we’ll see; I have serious doubts about their ability to do this.
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In our last blog for 2025, @gaiamarcus.bsky.social reflects on whether the 'AI train' is on the right track: www.adalovelaceinstitute.org/blog/mind-th...
Mind the gap: reflections on 2025
Is the ‘AI train’ on the right track?
www.adalovelaceinstitute.org
December 18, 2025 at 6:10 PM
In our last blog for 2025, @gaiamarcus.bsky.social reflects on whether the 'AI train' is on the right track: www.adalovelaceinstitute.org/blog/mind-th...
Algeria’s lower house of parliament is reviewing a bill that would let the state strip some Algerians of their citizenship, including those born Algerian, for actions deemed seriously harmful to national security or unity when committed in Algeria or abroad. north-africa.com/algeria-insi...
Algeria: Inside the Draft Citizenship Revocation Law
Algeria’s parliament is weighing a bill that would let authorities revoke citizenship from nationals accused of aiding hostile states, threatening national unity, or joining terrorist groups abroad.
north-africa.com
December 18, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Algeria’s lower house of parliament is reviewing a bill that would let the state strip some Algerians of their citizenship, including those born Algerian, for actions deemed seriously harmful to national security or unity when committed in Algeria or abroad. north-africa.com/algeria-insi...
Well, I guess that's positive at least
sudantribune.com/article/308316
sudantribune.com/article/308316
Al-Burhan orders end to withholding identity documents from Sudanese opponents - Sudan Tribune
December 17, 2025 (PORT SUDAN) – Sudan’s Sovereign Council Chairman and Army Chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan on Wednesday ordered authorities to stop withholding identity documents from citizens, includi...
sudantribune.com
December 18, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Well, I guess that's positive at least
sudantribune.com/article/308316
sudantribune.com/article/308316
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Out now – fully open access 🎉
The ICJ’s Climate Advisory Opinion is one of the most significant developments in international climate law. ⚖️🌍
This new volume shows why – and explores its implications for global climate governance.
Get your free copy here:
👉 verfassungsblog.de/book/the-icj...
The ICJ’s Climate Advisory Opinion is one of the most significant developments in international climate law. ⚖️🌍
This new volume shows why – and explores its implications for global climate governance.
Get your free copy here:
👉 verfassungsblog.de/book/the-icj...
December 18, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Out now – fully open access 🎉
The ICJ’s Climate Advisory Opinion is one of the most significant developments in international climate law. ⚖️🌍
This new volume shows why – and explores its implications for global climate governance.
Get your free copy here:
👉 verfassungsblog.de/book/the-icj...
The ICJ’s Climate Advisory Opinion is one of the most significant developments in international climate law. ⚖️🌍
This new volume shows why – and explores its implications for global climate governance.
Get your free copy here:
👉 verfassungsblog.de/book/the-icj...
Remarkable stats on increased appeals from HO asylum decisions, explained by NAO conclusion that “decision quality remains a challenge, with 42% of sampled decisions in a rolling twelve months to May 2025 having significant or fail errors”
From last week: First-tier Tribunal appeal receipts up 123% in a year, amid continuing concerns about Home Office decision making | Sonia Lenegan
First-tier Tribunal appeal receipts up 123% in a year, amid continuing concerns about Home Office decision making - Free Movement
In July to September this year, the number of appeals received by the First-tier Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) increased by 123%, to 30,000,
freemovement.org.uk
December 18, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Remarkable stats on increased appeals from HO asylum decisions, explained by NAO conclusion that “decision quality remains a challenge, with 42% of sampled decisions in a rolling twelve months to May 2025 having significant or fail errors”
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CJEU, border controls
🚨 MASSIVE defeat for Frontex in two judgments - the agency is liable if it assists Member States to do pushbacks etc in breach of human rights; rules of evidence are simplified for migrants curia.europa.eu/jcms/jcms/Jo...
🚨 MASSIVE defeat for Frontex in two judgments - the agency is liable if it assists Member States to do pushbacks etc in breach of human rights; rules of evidence are simplified for migrants curia.europa.eu/jcms/jcms/Jo...
December 18, 2025 at 9:19 AM
CJEU, border controls
🚨 MASSIVE defeat for Frontex in two judgments - the agency is liable if it assists Member States to do pushbacks etc in breach of human rights; rules of evidence are simplified for migrants curia.europa.eu/jcms/jcms/Jo...
🚨 MASSIVE defeat for Frontex in two judgments - the agency is liable if it assists Member States to do pushbacks etc in breach of human rights; rules of evidence are simplified for migrants curia.europa.eu/jcms/jcms/Jo...
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Not sure what Lebanon is aiming to achieve with 'symbolic' move to grant Infantino Lebanese citizenship.
As a reminder, women cannot pass Lebanese citizenship to their children if the father is foreign. Neither can women pass citizenship to a non-Lebanese husband.
Address these real issues first.
As a reminder, women cannot pass Lebanese citizenship to their children if the father is foreign. Neither can women pass citizenship to a non-Lebanese husband.
Address these real issues first.
Congrats to FIFA President Infantino on receiving Lebanese citizenship. Having lived 12 years in Lebanon, I hope he helps improve Lebanese football so more homegrown players reach the national teams.
www.thenationalnews.com/news/mena/20...
www.thenationalnews.com/news/mena/20...
Lebanon grants citizenship to Fifa chief Gianni Infantino in 'symbolic' move | The National
Lebanese Football Association said the decision was made by President Joseph Aoun
www.thenationalnews.com
December 18, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Not sure what Lebanon is aiming to achieve with 'symbolic' move to grant Infantino Lebanese citizenship.
As a reminder, women cannot pass Lebanese citizenship to their children if the father is foreign. Neither can women pass citizenship to a non-Lebanese husband.
Address these real issues first.
As a reminder, women cannot pass Lebanese citizenship to their children if the father is foreign. Neither can women pass citizenship to a non-Lebanese husband.
Address these real issues first.
Interested in BHR and accountability for environmental and human rights crimes? Follow @raid-uk.bsky.social ! (I know their work is excellent because I used to be the board chair)
Hello everyone @ Bluesky 👋 We’re new here! Check out our website and stay tuned – more soon. raid-uk.org
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December 18, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Interested in BHR and accountability for environmental and human rights crimes? Follow @raid-uk.bsky.social ! (I know their work is excellent because I used to be the board chair)
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New Blog Alert ❗
Kate McMillan explores the nature of the citizenship claim considered by the Waitangi Tribunal in 2025 📜⚖️
Analysing its findings and recommendations, the government's reaction, and what happens next ✒️
📖 tinyurl.com/39v42dj2
Kate McMillan explores the nature of the citizenship claim considered by the Waitangi Tribunal in 2025 📜⚖️
Analysing its findings and recommendations, the government's reaction, and what happens next ✒️
📖 tinyurl.com/39v42dj2
Citizenship by descent for indigenous New Zealanders: recent debates - Globalcit
This post discusses New Zealand’s Waitangi Tribunal’s inquiry into whether the restriction of transmission of citizenship by descent to one generation, contained in the New Zealand Citizenship Act 197...
globalcit.eu
December 5, 2025 at 11:37 AM
New Blog Alert ❗
Kate McMillan explores the nature of the citizenship claim considered by the Waitangi Tribunal in 2025 📜⚖️
Analysing its findings and recommendations, the government's reaction, and what happens next ✒️
📖 tinyurl.com/39v42dj2
Kate McMillan explores the nature of the citizenship claim considered by the Waitangi Tribunal in 2025 📜⚖️
Analysing its findings and recommendations, the government's reaction, and what happens next ✒️
📖 tinyurl.com/39v42dj2
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How does cinema shape our understanding of migration?
Join me for the first @mpc-eui.bsky.social seminar of next year (in-person/online), where I will share ideas based on a global dataset of 410 documentaries, films, and television series on migration.
migrationpolicycentre.eu/events/?id=5...
Join me for the first @mpc-eui.bsky.social seminar of next year (in-person/online), where I will share ideas based on a global dataset of 410 documentaries, films, and television series on migration.
migrationpolicycentre.eu/events/?id=5...
Migration representation in movies from 1940 to 2024: The spectacle of human mobility and the north-bound bias
How does cinema shape our understanding of migration? Join Lorenzo Piccoli as he shares findings and patterns drawn from an analysis of a new global dataset of 410 documentaries, films, and television...
migrationpolicycentre.eu
December 18, 2025 at 9:37 AM
How does cinema shape our understanding of migration?
Join me for the first @mpc-eui.bsky.social seminar of next year (in-person/online), where I will share ideas based on a global dataset of 410 documentaries, films, and television series on migration.
migrationpolicycentre.eu/events/?id=5...
Join me for the first @mpc-eui.bsky.social seminar of next year (in-person/online), where I will share ideas based on a global dataset of 410 documentaries, films, and television series on migration.
migrationpolicycentre.eu/events/?id=5...
#DigitalID proposals from the new white paper on Citizenship, Immigration and Refugee Protection from SA Dept of Home Affairs... it's not encouraging that the actual DHA website seems to have been accidentally deleted? Except for a new application portal...
www.biometricupdate.com/202512/south...
www.biometricupdate.com/202512/south...
South Africa plans Intelligent Population Register in proposed civil registration reform | Biometric Update
The modern, digitally enabled Intelligent Population Register (IPR) is expected to serve as the basis for a new digital identity dispensation.
www.biometricupdate.com
December 17, 2025 at 4:47 PM
#DigitalID proposals from the new white paper on Citizenship, Immigration and Refugee Protection from SA Dept of Home Affairs... it's not encouraging that the actual DHA website seems to have been accidentally deleted? Except for a new application portal...
www.biometricupdate.com/202512/south...
www.biometricupdate.com/202512/south...
Eyal Benvenisti: The recent UNSC resolution extending the MINURSO mandate for Western Sahara "similar to the one about Gaza, poses a foundational challenge to the current international legal order and to the Westphalian notion of sovereign equality."
The #UNCharter promised sovereignty would shield states from conquest, partition, and protectorates.
Eyal Benvenisti writes the #UNSecurityCouncil itself is quietly rewriting this system, and outlines what small and middle powers could do:
www.justsecurity.org/127215/umaki...
Eyal Benvenisti writes the #UNSecurityCouncil itself is quietly rewriting this system, and outlines what small and middle powers could do:
www.justsecurity.org/127215/umaki...
A U.S.-Russia-China Entente? The Unmaking of the Sovereignty System via the Western Sahara
The UNSC resolution on Western Sahara signals a shift from sovereign equality, undermining self-determination rights affirmed by the ICJ.
www.justsecurity.org
December 17, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Eyal Benvenisti: The recent UNSC resolution extending the MINURSO mandate for Western Sahara "similar to the one about Gaza, poses a foundational challenge to the current international legal order and to the Westphalian notion of sovereign equality."
Interesting and nuanced discussion of migration, asylum & British citizenship by the House of Lords with @sundersays.bsky.social & @alanmanning4.bsky.social
"Brexit has made us a court of appeal for failed asylum seekers in the EU", former government migration adviser Alan Manning tells a House of Lords committee committees.parliament.uk/oralevidence...
Uncorrected oral evidence: Settlement, citizenship and integration
committees.parliament.uk
December 17, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Interesting and nuanced discussion of migration, asylum & British citizenship by the House of Lords with @sundersays.bsky.social & @alanmanning4.bsky.social
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Italy is among the European countries with the most restrictive citizenship laws for the children of immigrants born on its territory, while several other European governments are also tightening access to citizenship.
Video by @artefr.bsky.social.
www.arte.tv/it/videos/12...
Video by @artefr.bsky.social.
www.arte.tv/it/videos/12...
La cittadinanza in Italia - Guarda il documentario completo | ARTE in italiano
Insaf Dimassi è arrivata in Italia dalla Tunisia a soli nove mesi. Ora ha 28 anni e non ha ancora la cittadinanza italiana. Come lei, oltre 900.000 studenti sono nella stessa situazione. È uno scandal...
www.arte.tv
December 16, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Italy is among the European countries with the most restrictive citizenship laws for the children of immigrants born on its territory, while several other European governments are also tightening access to citizenship.
Video by @artefr.bsky.social.
www.arte.tv/it/videos/12...
Video by @artefr.bsky.social.
www.arte.tv/it/videos/12...
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Woman who fled rape and torture in DRC wins UK citizenship case after Home Office U-turn
Woman who fled rape and torture in DRC wins UK citizenship case after Home Office U-turn
Victory thought to be first under new policy that normally refuses applicants such as refugees who entered illegally
A woman who fled rape and torture in the Democratic Republic of the Congo 18 years ago and was denied British citizenship because she entered the UK illegally has won her case after a government U-turn.
It is thought to be the first victory under a new policy whereby citizenship applications from people such as refugees who enter the UK illegally will normally be refused. She successfully challenged the refusal in a high court case. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 15, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Woman who fled rape and torture in DRC wins UK citizenship case after Home Office U-turn
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Ensuring a Human Rights-Compliant End to Refugeehood through Integration, Naturalisation or Voluntary Repatriation. New thematic paper co-authored by @catbriddick.bsky.social, @profccostello.bsky.social & Minos Mouzourakis for @coe.int
Read more and download:
bit.ly/3N0awZa
Read more and download:
bit.ly/3N0awZa
New paper on ensuring a human rights-compliant end to refugeehood co-authored by Catherine Briddick
The Council of Europe Division on Migration and Refugees (DMR) has released a new thematic paper, Ensuring a Human Rights-Compliant End to Refugeehood through Integration, Naturalisation or Voluntary ...
bit.ly
December 15, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Ensuring a Human Rights-Compliant End to Refugeehood through Integration, Naturalisation or Voluntary Repatriation. New thematic paper co-authored by @catbriddick.bsky.social, @profccostello.bsky.social & Minos Mouzourakis for @coe.int
Read more and download:
bit.ly/3N0awZa
Read more and download:
bit.ly/3N0awZa
Currently on BBC iplayer. Joyful tribute to young love and London - & an antidote to despair at current state of the world. (At least for 90 mins)
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
Rye Lane
Two youngsters, reeling from bad breakups, connect over an eventful day in south London.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 14, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Currently on BBC iplayer. Joyful tribute to young love and London - & an antidote to despair at current state of the world. (At least for 90 mins)
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
interesting but ultimately frustrating article in Nature on determinants of 'health care seeking behaviour' among people at risk of #statelessness in Ghana. But nowhere is there a definition of what they mean by 'at risk of statelessness' www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Determinants of health information seeking behavior among people at risk of statelessness in Ghana - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Determinants of health information seeking behavior among people at risk of statelessness in Ghana
www.nature.com
December 14, 2025 at 6:41 PM
interesting but ultimately frustrating article in Nature on determinants of 'health care seeking behaviour' among people at risk of #statelessness in Ghana. But nowhere is there a definition of what they mean by 'at risk of statelessness' www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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SA government has published a revised white paper on citizenship & immigration, tightening conditions for naturalisation www.gov.za/news/speeche...
Minister Leon Schreiber invites public comment on the Draft Revised White Paper on Citizenship, Immigration and Refugee Protection | South African Government
Following approval by Cabinet, the Minister of Home Affairs, Dr Leon Schreiber, has today published the Draft Revised White Paper on Citizenship, Immigration and Refugee Protection in the Government G...
www.gov.za
December 12, 2025 at 5:35 PM
SA government has published a revised white paper on citizenship & immigration, tightening conditions for naturalisation www.gov.za/news/speeche...
Reposted by Bronwen Manby
À Mayotte, les enfants d’étrangers sont refoulés de l’école, en dépit du droit
Par Rémi Carayol
Par Rémi Carayol
À Mayotte, les enfants d’étrangers sont refoulés de l’école, en dépit du droit
Les communes de l’île multiplient les obstacles plus ou moins fantaisistes visant à empêcher les parents de nationalité comorienne d’inscrire leurs enfants dans les écoles. Une discrimination qui perdure grâce à la passivité des pouvoirs publics. Après plusieurs rapports, c’est au tour de l’Unicef de mettre les élus à l’amende sur le sujet.
l.mediapart.fr
December 13, 2025 at 3:54 PM
À Mayotte, les enfants d’étrangers sont refoulés de l’école, en dépit du droit
Par Rémi Carayol
Par Rémi Carayol
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75 years of the ECHR ✨⚖️
A system that shaped human rights across Europe — and far beyond — now faces profound new challenges.
Our new symposium with @mpil.de brings together voices from across the globe to reflect on its past, present and future.
verfassungsblog.de/category/deb...
A system that shaped human rights across Europe — and far beyond — now faces profound new challenges.
Our new symposium with @mpil.de brings together voices from across the globe to reflect on its past, present and future.
verfassungsblog.de/category/deb...
December 8, 2025 at 5:27 PM
75 years of the ECHR ✨⚖️
A system that shaped human rights across Europe — and far beyond — now faces profound new challenges.
Our new symposium with @mpil.de brings together voices from across the globe to reflect on its past, present and future.
verfassungsblog.de/category/deb...
A system that shaped human rights across Europe — and far beyond — now faces profound new challenges.
Our new symposium with @mpil.de brings together voices from across the globe to reflect on its past, present and future.
verfassungsblog.de/category/deb...
SA government has published a revised white paper on citizenship & immigration, tightening conditions for naturalisation www.gov.za/news/speeche...
Minister Leon Schreiber invites public comment on the Draft Revised White Paper on Citizenship, Immigration and Refugee Protection | South African Government
Following approval by Cabinet, the Minister of Home Affairs, Dr Leon Schreiber, has today published the Draft Revised White Paper on Citizenship, Immigration and Refugee Protection in the Government G...
www.gov.za
December 12, 2025 at 5:35 PM
SA government has published a revised white paper on citizenship & immigration, tightening conditions for naturalisation www.gov.za/news/speeche...