Everything you need to know about statelessness

Is Latvia condemning older generations to non-citizenship?

“Grandmother, you have lived and worked your whole life in Latvia, and survived a war... How is it possible that you, such a remarkable person, are…

Irish British Subjects - A living reminder of the inter-linked history between the UK and Ireland

While perhaps well known to that small band of nationality lawyers around the world who take pleasure in obscure, forgotten and anachronistic…

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…

Citizenship deprivation: How Britain took the lead on dismantling citizenship

“...although we may ... sometimes persecute people because they are foreign, the deeper truth is that we almost always make foreign those whom we…

Deprivation of nationality in France: first draft of the constitutional act narrowly approved by the National Assembly

A draft constitutional act has been put forward by the French President, François Hollande, only three days after the terrorist attacks in Paris last…

“Grey” - a documentary on Estonia’s stateless children

Between the spring and the summer of 1990, after five decades of Soviet rule and German occupation, the three Baltic republics of Estonia, Latvia…

The State of Statelessness in the Americas: Implementing the UNHCR Action Plan

In November 2014, the United Nations High Commission for Refugees launched its Global Campaign to End Statelessness in 10 Years. At the event in…

Nowhere people – collective portrait of the 10 million stateless people

Early last year, while in Malta, I met Ibrahim and Abdul. Ibrahim was originally from Sierra Leone and Abdul was from Somalia. After working nine…

Telling the stories of stateless persons through animation

For me as a visual artist it is important to collaborate with people who work in the field and have in depth knowledge of the issue I’m focusing on.…

Ensuring gender equal nationality laws is key to ending statelessness

If statelessness is to be eradicated, it is vital that all States ensure that women and men have equal nationality rights – rights that govern one’s…

Creating a regional network on statelessness in Central Asia and lessons from Europe

When Chris Nash, the Director of ENS, called to ask if I was available to represent the organisation in a meeting on statelessness in Almaty,…