Everything you need to know about statelessness

Double jeopardy – Syria’s Stateless Palestinians

The Syrian refugee crisis has reached a tally of more than two million who have fled the country, leading the United Nations to characterize the…

Act now and help protect stateless people across Europe!

When meeting a stateless person what is often so very striking is their understandable bewilderment about the situation they have been unlucky…

A question of ‘if’ and ‘when’ is someone stateless

Farid is in UK immigration detention pending deportation. He has an Iranian passport that has expired. One month into his detention, he attempts to…

The case of Valjbona and her children - lack of birth registration leaves many Roma children in a situation of undetermined nationality for an extended period of time

“Once I acquire nationality, my children will finally be able to go to the doctor’s when necessary and I will not have to pay for medicines. Nearby…

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…

UK House of Lords defeats Government on deprivation of citizenship leading to statelessness

On 19 November 2013 Amal de Chickera responded on this blog to the UK Home Secretary’s announcement that she would invite parliament to change UK…

Questions of nationality and statelessness in Armenia

The Republic of Armenia was one of the first republics of the former Soviet Union to ratify the two UN Statelessness Conventions, in 1994. How far…

Ibrahim’s story: Hope for how a stateless person can start a new life in Slovakia thanks to legislative changes

“He is the soul of our centre. The most honest, responsible and hardworking person we have here. And he does not drink any alcohol! He is a Muslim,…

Networking for change – Statelessness events in Strasbourg and making a difference?

Perhaps borne from a certain sense of frustration, many of us working on statelessness often feel compelled to emphasise the hidden nature of the…

Europe must not allow its children to grow up without a nationality

How do you explain statelessness to a child? Yes, you were born here. And yes, mummy comes from here. And yes, daddy comes from here. And yes, you…

Abandoned by parents, neglected by the State

„...I just want to get an ID card, like other citizens, and then register the birth of my children. My greatest wish is that my children go to…

We Need to Talk About the Nation-State

Eradicating statelessness is high on the agenda. It is under this banner that the statelessness movement is expected to gather steam over the next…