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Mobilising to address statelessness in the Netherlands

It’s Friday night in Amsterdam and I’m on my way home after the UNHCR’s #iBelong campaign event and the spin-off event organised by ASKV Refugee…
/ Marlotte van Dael, ASKV Refugee Support
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EVENT: Stateless Roma in Europe, 29 Nov (1-2.30pm); European Parliament, Brussels

Room ASP A1E-1, European Parliament, BrusselsWednesday, 29 November (1-2.30pm) Organised by UNHCR and the European Network on Statelessness, this…
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Denial and denigration: How discrimination feeds statelessness

Ethnic, national, religious and linguistic minorities make up a disproportionate number of the world’s stateless population. While statelessness may…
/ Andrea Spitálszky, Europe Legal Officer, Minority Rights Group International (MRG)
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#RomaBelong – Tackling Roma statelessness in the Western Balkans and Ukraine

“I feel bad because I am from here but they are not giving me citizenship. I feel I don’t belong here. God forbid if I die, they will not bury me…
/ Nina Murray, European Network on Statelessness
RomaBelong report Publications

Roma Belong – Statelessness, Discrimination and Marginalisation of Roma in the Western Balkans and Ukraine

Produced by the European Roma Rights Centre (ERRC), the European Network on Statelessness (ENS) and the Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion (ISI…
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EVENT INVITATION: Stateless but not rightless; Amsterdam (3 November, 3.15-5pm)

Join ASKV Refugee Support, the European Network on Statelessness (ENS), and the Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion (ISI) at an event - "…
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One man’s struggle for an identity

We all know that some ten million people around the world are stateless. Often they are reduced to statistics, case files and quotes. Art can be a…
/ Gerard van Leeuwen, Author
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How the Council of Europe is working to help protect stateless refugees and migrants from ending up #LockedinLimbo

I was pleased to be able to lend my voice to the European Network on Statelessness’ #LockedInLimbo campaign at an event at the Parliamentary Assembly…
/ Tomáš Boček, CoE Secretary General's Special Representative on Migration and Refugees
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Citizenship for sale – At a cost stateless people can ill afford

Stateless people in the UK face enormous hurdles in the road to becoming British citizens. One of those barriers is the extraordinarily high cost of…
/ Cynthia Orchard, Legal Policy Officer at Asylum Aid
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The Charter of Fundamental Rights and the protection of stateless people in the EU: a dormant giant?

The EU Charter: a robust normative layer Despite the re-emergence of the issue of statelessness on the international agenda and the intensifying…
/ Dr Tamas MOLNAR, legal research officer on asylum, migration and borders European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (Vienna)*
Interviews

ENS Interview: Ending arbitrary detention in Russia - #LockedinLimbo

Ahead of our forthcoming #LockedinLimbo campaign event in Strasbourg on 11 October, ENS talked to Stephania Kulaeva, Director of ADC Memorial, an ENS…
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They do exist: mapping statelessness in two pilot regions in Ukraine

Ukraine is most likely a host country to one of the largest populations of stateless people in Europe. Most likely, because nobody knows the exact…
/ Ostap Tymchiy, Migration expert at The Right to Protection (in partnership with HIAS)