The Statelessness Index now with data on Cyprus
The Statelessness Index assesses how countries in Europe protect stateless people and what they are doing to prevent and reduce statelessness.
A stateless person is someone who has no nationality. Statelessness is a legal anomaly that affects over half a million people in Europe – both recent migrants and those who have lived in the same place for generations – denying many their fundamental rights.
See the new data on the Statelessness Index on Cyprus
Excerpt from the Index:
“Cyprus is not state party to any of the four core statelessness conventions, being one of only four European Union member states yet to accede to the 1954 Convention on the Status of Stateless Persons. Its performance against international standards in other areas of the Index is generally weak, and there is very little reliable data on the stateless population. Although statelessness is referenced in Cypriot law and may be identified in certain administrative procedures, there is no definition of a stateless person, no dedicated statelessness determination procedure, no stateless protection status, few protections against arbitrary detention, and few safeguards to prevent statelessness in Cypriot nationality law.
Some procedural safeguards exist in the asylum procedure and in relation to detention, including the right to legal aid and remedies. If refused asylum and subsidiary protection, a stateless person may be considered for a short-term residence permit on humanitarian grounds by the Migration Department, but this is discretionary, grants limited rights and is not consistently applied. There is no safeguard to prevent children being born stateless in Cyprus, nor to regulate the citizenship of foundlings. Problematic birth registration practices, including fees and requests for documentation, heighten the risk of statelessness among certain groups. Children born to Cypriot parents abroad acquire citizenship automatically, but where a child is born in Cyprus to one Cypriot parent and one non-Cypriot who entered or remained in Cyprus irregularly, a discriminatory condition prevents the child from acquiring nationality unless the Ministerial Council orders otherwise.”
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