NEW PODCAST: STATELESSNESS & EXCLUSION: DIALOGUES.

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06/06/23 • 0 min

Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion Podcasts

This new ISI podcast explores the relationship between discrimination and statelessness through various historical, social and political lenses. The podcast is a series of curated conversations between individuals with lived and learnt expertise, on the intersection between statelessness and various root causes of discrimination.
The podcast serves as a critical tool to help us analyse and better understand the role of colonialism in creating stateless populations by discussing different themes including the history of colonialism, patriarchy, state formation, xenophobia and racism, digitalisation of IDs.
2 NEW EPISODES EVERY MONDAY, 12 JUNE - 3 JULY 2023.

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What's Best for Children's Nationality Podcast #4 - Lessons from South Africa... Strategic litigation

This episode of the What’s Best for Children’s Nationality Podcast considers stories of childhood statelessness in South Africa. An interview with Liesl Muller from Lawyers for Human Rights puts strategic litigation and international advocacy at the centre of ensuring safeguards in the nationality law in order to prevent such childhood statelessness. These good practices are also reflected upon by European Roma Rights Centre’s Adam Weiss in the context of antigypsyism in the processes around nationality acquisition.

The Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion has partnered with UNICEF to produce this six-part podcast series, ‘What’s Best for Children’s Nationality’. The series aims to build knowledge around childhood statelessness and the right of every child to a nationality by exploring good practices in the field with examples, challenges and successes from real-life settings. You can share your questions and reflections on the issues raised using the hashtags #NationalityForChildren and/or #ForInclusiveSocieties and find us through our twitter handle @institute_si. You can also send an email to [email protected].

This episode was created in partnership with Lawyers for Human Rights (LHR), an independent human rights organisation that supports human rights activism and public interest litigation in South Africa. With thanks to Liesl Muller from LHR and to Adam Weiss from the European Roma Rights Centre (ERRC). Our special thanks also goes to Love for her additions to this podcast.

Narrator and partner in production is Andy Clark from Podcast4u. Music comes from Blue Dot Sessions and Podington Bear under Creative Commons Non-Commercial Attribution License.

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Statelessness and Exclusion Podcast #2 - Patriarchy

Our Patriarchy episode by guest speakers Catherine Harrington and Patricia Low, discusses the patriarchy and its role in creating statelessness. The episode will analyse deep-seated patriarchy, how it views and constructs identity, political participation and gendered roles, and how this creates layers of discrimination against women—women are often seen in opposition to men and their rights, and lives, are at the discretion of men.

Catherine Harrington is the Campaign Manager for the Global Campaign for Equal Nationality Rights, a coalition of UN agencies, international, regional and local NGOs, academics and civil society partners, housed within the Women's Refugee Commission.
Patricia Low is from Malaysia and she is a writer, a mother of two, and an advocate from the Family Frontiers Mothers’ Network. She is one of the many women affected by Malaysia’s gender-unequal citizenship law, which denies citizenship by operation of law to children born abroad to women married to foreign spouses.
2 NEW EPISODES EVERY MONDAY, 12 JUNE - 3 JULY 2023.

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