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
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https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Bronwen-Manby/research
Syrians for Truth and Justice recommend that the Syrian transitional justice process formally integrate the case of Kurds deprived of nationality through the 1962 census #statelessness stj-sy.org/en/strangers...
“Strangers in Their Own Homeland”: The 1962 al-Hasaka Exceptional Census and the Path to Transitional Justice in Syria - Syrians for Truth and Justice
This publication was funded by the European Union, and in partnership with the Ceasefire Centre for Civilian Rights. The contents of this publication are the sole responsibility of Syrians for…
stj-sy.org
November 27, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Syrians for Truth and Justice recommend that the Syrian transitional justice process formally integrate the case of Kurds deprived of nationality through the 1962 census #statelessness stj-sy.org/en/strangers...
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What happens when a minority decides for the majority?
On Sunday, Swiss citizens head to the polls again. But Switzerland remains one of the most exclusionary democracies in the OECD.
In highly cosmopolitan places like Basel-Stadt, only 50.5% of all residents were entitled to vote (as of 2024)
On Sunday, Swiss citizens head to the polls again. But Switzerland remains one of the most exclusionary democracies in the OECD.
In highly cosmopolitan places like Basel-Stadt, only 50.5% of all residents were entitled to vote (as of 2024)
November 27, 2025 at 8:01 AM
What happens when a minority decides for the majority?
On Sunday, Swiss citizens head to the polls again. But Switzerland remains one of the most exclusionary democracies in the OECD.
In highly cosmopolitan places like Basel-Stadt, only 50.5% of all residents were entitled to vote (as of 2024)
On Sunday, Swiss citizens head to the polls again. But Switzerland remains one of the most exclusionary democracies in the OECD.
In highly cosmopolitan places like Basel-Stadt, only 50.5% of all residents were entitled to vote (as of 2024)
Oh dear
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November 27, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Oh dear
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Major court victory in Malaysia as Court of Appeal declares that stateless persons can legally marry without Malaysian identity card -with result that three generations of #stateless persons in the same family are recognised as citizens www.malaymail.com/news/malaysi...
Landmark ruling: Court declares three generations in Perak family Malaysians, affirms stateless persons’ right to marry
Today, the Court of Appeal declared six stateless persons — from three generations in a Perak family — as Malaysians, as they meet the Federal Constitution’s citizenship...
www.malaymail.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Major court victory in Malaysia as Court of Appeal declares that stateless persons can legally marry without Malaysian identity card -with result that three generations of #stateless persons in the same family are recognised as citizens www.malaymail.com/news/malaysi...
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Want to know more about the MER dataset 🤔
Read Sebastian Umpierrez de Reguero, Klaudia Wegschaider and Rainer Bauböcks explain in their new publication ⚡
MER maps migrant voting and candidacy rights in 165 countries across 60 years 🗳️🌍📊
⚡ tinyurl.com/mtm2rp53
Read Sebastian Umpierrez de Reguero, Klaudia Wegschaider and Rainer Bauböcks explain in their new publication ⚡
MER maps migrant voting and candidacy rights in 165 countries across 60 years 🗳️🌍📊
⚡ tinyurl.com/mtm2rp53
Migrant Electoral Rights (MER) New Data from 165 Countries and Six Decades - Globalcit
Sebastian Umpierrez de Reguero, Klaudia Wegschaider and Rainer Bauböck Migrant Electoral Rights (MER) New Data from 165 Countries and Six Decades, Nature, 2025. Read More ...
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November 26, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Want to know more about the MER dataset 🤔
Read Sebastian Umpierrez de Reguero, Klaudia Wegschaider and Rainer Bauböcks explain in their new publication ⚡
MER maps migrant voting and candidacy rights in 165 countries across 60 years 🗳️🌍📊
⚡ tinyurl.com/mtm2rp53
Read Sebastian Umpierrez de Reguero, Klaudia Wegschaider and Rainer Bauböcks explain in their new publication ⚡
MER maps migrant voting and candidacy rights in 165 countries across 60 years 🗳️🌍📊
⚡ tinyurl.com/mtm2rp53
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Interesting development in Indonesia: Global Citizenship of Indonesia (GCI), modelled after the Overseas Citizenship of India (OCI), which allows foreigners of Indian ancestry to visit, work and live in India indefinitely.
Citizenship in the News 📰 🇮🇩
Indonesia grants unlimited stay permit for former citizens in lieu of dual citizenship: Govt Launches “Global Citizenship” Scheme to Solve Dual Nationality Dilemma
www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...
Indonesia grants unlimited stay permit for former citizens in lieu of dual citizenship: Govt Launches “Global Citizenship” Scheme to Solve Dual Nationality Dilemma
www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...
www.reuters.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Interesting development in Indonesia: Global Citizenship of Indonesia (GCI), modelled after the Overseas Citizenship of India (OCI), which allows foreigners of Indian ancestry to visit, work and live in India indefinitely.
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CJEU, free movement law/LGBT rights
New judgment: Member States (in this case Poland) are obliged to recognise same sex marriages of EU citizens who have exercised free movement rights curia.europa.eu/jcms/jcms/Jo...
New judgment: Member States (in this case Poland) are obliged to recognise same sex marriages of EU citizens who have exercised free movement rights curia.europa.eu/jcms/jcms/Jo...
November 25, 2025 at 8:36 AM
CJEU, free movement law/LGBT rights
New judgment: Member States (in this case Poland) are obliged to recognise same sex marriages of EU citizens who have exercised free movement rights curia.europa.eu/jcms/jcms/Jo...
New judgment: Member States (in this case Poland) are obliged to recognise same sex marriages of EU citizens who have exercised free movement rights curia.europa.eu/jcms/jcms/Jo...
South Sudan: public consultations in Bahr el Ghazal State find demand South Sudanese with #dualcitizenship to be barred from holding top public offices. www.sudanspost.com/northern-bah...
Northern Bahr el Ghazal pushes to bar dual citizens from public offices - Sudans Post
Citizens in Northern Bahr el Ghazal State have called for sweeping constitutional reforms, including a controversial proposal to bar South Sudanese with dual citizenship from holding top public office...
www.sudanspost.com
November 24, 2025 at 5:39 PM
South Sudan: public consultations in Bahr el Ghazal State find demand South Sudanese with #dualcitizenship to be barred from holding top public offices. www.sudanspost.com/northern-bah...
“Half of the Malawian population in Zimbabwe has Zimbabwean passports and our government thought it wise to give them #dualcitizenship." #citizenshipinafrica
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www.heraldonline.co.zw/uptake-of-du...
Uptake of dual citizenship by Malawians in Zimbabwe increases - herald
Raymond Jaravaza, Zimpapers Reporter MALAWIANS living in Zimbabwe are continuing to benefit from the right to dual citizenship, which allows them to obtain passports from both countries in accordance ...
www.heraldonline.co.zw
November 24, 2025 at 5:38 PM
“Half of the Malawian population in Zimbabwe has Zimbabwean passports and our government thought it wise to give them #dualcitizenship." #citizenshipinafrica
www.heraldonline.co.zw/uptake-of-du...
www.heraldonline.co.zw/uptake-of-du...
SA Dept of Home affairs launches new online portal for those wanting to recover their citizenship following the ConCourt ruling that automatic loss of citizenship by dual citizens who did not have permission for dual citizenship was unconstitutional #citizenshipinafrica
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Home Affairs launches new citizenship portal | South African Government
Restoring dignity through digital progress: Home Affairs launches new citizenship portal The Minister of Home Affairs, Dr Leon Schreiber, today announced the launch of the Home Affairs Citizenship Rei...
www.gov.za
November 24, 2025 at 5:31 PM
SA Dept of Home affairs launches new online portal for those wanting to recover their citizenship following the ConCourt ruling that automatic loss of citizenship by dual citizens who did not have permission for dual citizenship was unconstitutional #citizenshipinafrica
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@atlanticcouncil.bsky.social report on #digitalID in Africa: “Weak legal frameworks, limited oversight, and a growing reliance on foreign vendors have created an ecosystem vulnerable to privacy breaches, state surveillance, and systemic exclusion.”
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Biometrics and digital identity in Africa
Biometrics have become deeply embedded in Africa’s political, social, and economic landscape.
www.atlanticcouncil.org
November 23, 2025 at 8:33 PM
@atlanticcouncil.bsky.social report on #digitalID in Africa: “Weak legal frameworks, limited oversight, and a growing reliance on foreign vendors have created an ecosystem vulnerable to privacy breaches, state surveillance, and systemic exclusion.”
www.atlanticcouncil.org/in-depth-res...
www.atlanticcouncil.org/in-depth-res...
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But when Leviathan is the text, the case is altered.
November 22, 2025 at 3:47 AM
But when Leviathan is the text, the case is altered.
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The EU's Court of Justice has confirmed that beneficiaries of temporary protection in the EU must be allowed to apply for other forms of protection.
Analysis of the judgment, by Dr Meltem Ineli Ciger: eulawanalysis.blogspot.com/2025/11/misr...
Analysis of the judgment, by Dr Meltem Ineli Ciger: eulawanalysis.blogspot.com/2025/11/misr...
EU Law Analysis
Misreading the Temporary Protection Directive? The CJEU sets the record straight on access to subsidiary protection in Framholm (C-195/25)...
eulawanalysis.blogspot.com
November 21, 2025 at 2:41 PM
The EU's Court of Justice has confirmed that beneficiaries of temporary protection in the EU must be allowed to apply for other forms of protection.
Analysis of the judgment, by Dr Meltem Ineli Ciger: eulawanalysis.blogspot.com/2025/11/misr...
Analysis of the judgment, by Dr Meltem Ineli Ciger: eulawanalysis.blogspot.com/2025/11/misr...
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Thirty years after the execution of the Ogoni Nine, who campaigned against oil pollution in the Nigeria, Leigh Day's Anthony Hayward tells Open Democracy the fight for justice continues
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/5050/thirty-years-after-deaths-of-the-ogoni-nine-the-fight-for-justice-continues/
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/5050/thirty-years-after-deaths-of-the-ogoni-nine-the-fight-for-justice-continues/
30 years after Ogoni Nine died, fight for justice continues
‘When your environment is polluted, it’s destroyed, and you no longer have the right to live’ – Ken Saro Wiwa
www.opendemocracy.net
November 21, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Thirty years after the execution of the Ogoni Nine, who campaigned against oil pollution in the Nigeria, Leigh Day's Anthony Hayward tells Open Democracy the fight for justice continues
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/5050/thirty-years-after-deaths-of-the-ogoni-nine-the-fight-for-justice-continues/
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/5050/thirty-years-after-deaths-of-the-ogoni-nine-the-fight-for-justice-continues/
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Canadian citizenship can now be passed down to people born abroad, beyond the first generation, if the parents spent a cumulative three years in Canada before the child's birth. Still contestation around "intercountry adoptees" when it comes to passing down citizenship.
Citizenship in the News 📰🇨🇦
Bill restoring citizenship for 'Lost Canadians' becomes law: Court ruled government must pass law covering some children born abroad
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Bill restoring citizenship for 'Lost Canadians' becomes law: Court ruled government must pass law covering some children born abroad
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Bill restoring citizenship for 'Lost Canadians' becomes law | CBC News
The "Lost Canadians" legislation, which aims to fix Canada's unconstitutional citizenship by descent rules, passed in the Senate Wednesday and received royal assent Thursday afternoon.
www.cbc.ca
November 21, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Canadian citizenship can now be passed down to people born abroad, beyond the first generation, if the parents spent a cumulative three years in Canada before the child's birth. Still contestation around "intercountry adoptees" when it comes to passing down citizenship.
Kuwait - Sudanese man alleged to have fraudulently acquired citizenship on basis found in the territory of unknown parents not only has citizenship withdrawn after 30 yrs, but also sentenced to life imprisonment (apparently without commiting any other offence)
www.arabtimesonline.com/news/31-year...
www.arabtimesonline.com/news/31-year...
31-Year Deception Exposed: Sudanese Man Gets Life Sentence For Forging Kuwaiti Citizenship
www.arabtimesonline.com
November 21, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Kuwait - Sudanese man alleged to have fraudulently acquired citizenship on basis found in the territory of unknown parents not only has citizenship withdrawn after 30 yrs, but also sentenced to life imprisonment (apparently without commiting any other offence)
www.arabtimesonline.com/news/31-year...
www.arabtimesonline.com/news/31-year...
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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...
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
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...
Read our response to the official text of the EU Digital Omnibus Regulation Proposal⬇️
www.adalovelaceinstitute.org/news/our-res...
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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
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November 20, 2025 at 8:50 AM
#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...
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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
Me at the LRB blog on the atrocious refugee policy of Mahmood and Starmer
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...
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
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...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/u...
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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
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...
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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!
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November 17, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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...
www.ejiltalk.org/ejil-the-pod...
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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
📰 Summary and Key Findings: tinyurl.com/56sknbxw
📖 Full Report: tinyurl.com/yc6cdszx
November 17, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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
📰 Summary and Key Findings: tinyurl.com/56sknbxw
📖 Full Report: tinyurl.com/yc6cdszx
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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
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There is a political alternative that won’t ever scapegoat those fleeing war, persecution and torture
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November 16, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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
There is a political alternative that won’t ever scapegoat those fleeing war, persecution and torture
join.greenparty.org.uk
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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...
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
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...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...