Everything you need to know about statelessness

No Child Should be Stateless in Austria

This new report by the European Network on Statelessness, DLA Piper, and Diakonie Fluchtlingsdienst sheds light on the issue of childhood…

Event Announcement - No Child Should be Stateless in Austria

We are pleased to announce an event in Vienna on Thursday 27 July to launch a new joint ENS/DLA Piper/Diakonie report ‘No Child Should be Stateless…

Barriers to citizenship facing stateless children born in the UK

Stateless children born in the UK have a right to register as British citizens after living here for a continuous period of five years. But various…

Ending Statelessness arising out of Surrogacy in India: The Latest Developments

Studies estimate that surrogate mothers have given birth to more than 25,000 children in India, and about half of these children now live in the…

Using the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child to help protect children from statelessness in Serbia

(A version of this article was first published in the Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion’s the  World's Stateless 2017 report.)

The World’s Stateless Children: new report out now

“The Invisible of the Invisible” – this is how the Chair of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, Benyam Dawit Mezmur, has described the world…

Commissioner for Human Rights on childhood statelessness

Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, Nils Muižnieks speaks on the urgent need to end childhood statelessness, as part of the European…

Why do children become stateless?

Children get their nationality through different types of connections they have with a country. But sometime their right to a nationality is denied…

Important victory for stateless children born in Norway

The Norwegian Ministry of Justice and Public Security has issued a new instruction to the immigration authorities to align their practice with Norway…

What does it mean to be stateless?

Have you ever wondered what exactly does it mean to be stateless? This ENS infographic explains what it's like to grow up in Europe without a…

Invisible kids: Localising children’s right to a nationality

When we assess progress towards the goal of ending childhood statelessness, we often do so by dividing the world into nation-States. The…

A new toolkit for protecting the right of every child to a nationality

196 states have signed on to the international obligations contained in the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). That’s as good as it gets…