Browse through our library of news, events, blogs, interviews and publications. You can also access our Statelessness Index and our Statelessness Case Law Database.

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Blog

#RomaBelong – Broadening the debate on how to end Roma statelessness

During the International Week against Racism (12-25 March 2018) one of the events organised in Munich looked at the issue of statelessness among…
/ Kateryna Gaidei, Tenth of April (Desyate Kvitnya)
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Submission to the Special Rapporteur’s upcoming Thematic report on racial and ethnic based discrimination through nationality and citizenship exclusion

ENS in partnership with the European Roma Rights Centre (ERRC) and the Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion (ISI) made a joint submission –…
/ Submission
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How to square a circle: contemplating the shades of minority statelessness

In present times, ever more people dream of not being tied up to a certain state and becoming ‘citizens of everywhere’. This post-national dream…
/ Dr Julija Sardelić, Marie Curie Skłodowska Postdoctoral Fellow LINES – Leuven International and European Studies, University of Leuven
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“The applicant, a stateless person” – Roma, statelessness and the European Court of Human Rights

On 15 June 2017, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), communicated the case HASANI v. the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (Application…
/ Ivan Kochovski, Member of Macedonian Young Lawyers Association
Interviews

ENS Interview with Adam Weiss: Tackling Roma statelessness - #RomaBelong

Following a successful launch of a joint #RomaBelong report which marked the start of a new project on Roma statelessness in the Western Balkans and…
Stateless Roma in Europe - VoxBox, European Parliament Videos

Stateless Roma in Europe - VoxBox, European Parliament

Following a lunchtime event “Stateless Roma in Europe” on 29 Nov in the European Parliament, Soraya Post (MEP -S&D), Inge Sturkenboom (UNHCR) and…
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'I feel that I belong too’ – stateless Roma in Europe

Thirteen-year-old Lirije is a stateless Roma girl who lives in Skopje, in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. Like her, more than 75% of the…
/ Inge Sturkenboom, UNHCR
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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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CONFERENCE INVITATION: #RomaBelong - Statelessness, Discrimination and Marginalisation of Roma in the Western Balkans and Ukraine; Skopje, 26-27 Oct

The European Network on Statelessness (ENS), the European Roma Rights Centre (ERRC) and the Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion (ISI) are…
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Roma in Serbia still denied birth certificates – ENS members take legal action to challenge register offices’ unlimited power

The purist in me imagines bureaucrats running around maternity wards, struggling to catch all the details (“Name? Mother’s name? Sorry, can you…
/ Adam Weiss – European Roma Rights Centre (ERRC)