Everything you need to know about statelessness

The right to a legal identity or the right to a legal ID?

Proposed target 16.9 of the soon-to-be-adopted Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) reads: Provide legal identity to all, including birth…

What (more) can the EU do to help address statelessness in its external human rights action?

As international interest in tackling statelessness grows, a question that repeatedly surfaces is: what role can X organisation, Y country or even Z…

Equal Nationality Rights: It’s Time to End Gender Discrimination in Nationality Laws

“Please, can you explain to me, because I don’t understand. Why is there this discrimination? Why do they differentiate between men and women? I don…

What should the European Union do about the mass and arbitrary deprivation of nationality in the Dominican Republic?

Tens of thousands of Dominicans of Haitian descent born in the Dominican Republic were rendered stateless by a ruling of the Constitutional Court in…

Litigating for the stateless – a bumpy, but steady road upwards

Ever wonder why there are so few cases on statelessness before international supervisory bodies and regional courts? The task of browsing through…

More than a photo op – an opportunity for advocacy with governments on accession

Complaints about the low number of States that are party to the UN statelessness conventions have been a constant feature of international…

A Government Approach to Moving Statelessness Forward on the International Agenda

The last ENS blog entry dealt with the emergence of the issue of statelessness on the international agenda. Following this approach my contribution…

Engaging the Human Rights World on Statelessness

2013 has crept up on us as all New Years do; too soon, with too much work undone and with too many problems of the previous year left unresolved.…

Statelessness in Sweden - changes ahead?

Sweden was one out of only four countries that pledged during the 2011 UNHCR Ministerial Meeting to address statelessness through foreign policy (…

A growing voice - Network building in Brussels and at UNHCR's NGO Consultations in Geneva

Following the launch of our website we have been working hard to spread the word about the European Network on Statelessness (ENS), including…

The UN adopts a new resolution on the right to nationality

Yesterday the UN’s Human Rights Council—a body responsible for promoting and protecting human rights around the world—passed an important resolution…