Everything you need to know about statelessness

Sign our new #StatelessKids petition and help us end childhood statelessness in Europe

There’s lots of different reasons why children still end up stateless, but it’s never their fault. Thousands of children in Europe are growing up…

An Italian Recipe for Reducing Childhood Statelessness

The chefs spend their days cooking at the European Roma Rights Centre Ingredienti

The boy

The boy does not know his place.He does not know he is different. Inferior.He thinks he is equal.He thinks he can dream. We can’t really blame the…

Ending Childhood Statelessness – A Comparative Study of Safeguards to Ensure the Right to a Nationality for Children Born in Europe

The working paper complements our 2015 report No Child Should Be Stateless by providing deeper analysis of the nationality laws of 45 European…

Norwegian Government condemns stateless children to a state of legal limbo

A new proposal by the Norwegian Government will leave children born stateless in Norway who are habitually resident without a nationality until they…

Our #StatelessKids campaign is recruiting new ambassadors to help us end childhood statelessness

No child should be stateless! Yet as we were (again) reminded yesterday by the Commissioner for Human Rights Nils Muiznieks in his report on Cyprus…

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…

“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 emerging role of the EU in eradicating childhood statelessness

As the year draws to a close we can confidently say that the issue of statelessness and what can be done to tackle it at the EU level, is higher up…

Taking Inspiration from Europe's youth committed to ending Statelessness

Last week the European Youth Parliament (EYP), an educational parliamentary simulation programme for young people, celebrated its 80th International…

"I am here, I belong."

Usually, when we meet new people, especially in an unknown environment for us, we often feel shy and uncomfortable, be it a work-related or a…

Realising the right of every child to a nationality through the Convention on the Rights of the Child

When talking about how to end childhood statelessness in Europe, we often jump straight to the special standards that are contained in the 1961…