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…

Am I part of the problem?

Our Annual report – “Networking for Change”

We are pleased to share with you our first annual report since we transitioned from being a project of our founding members to become an independent…

An Italian Recipe for Reducing Childhood Statelessness

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

Annual Report 2014-15

Read our new annual report which covers a period pivotal both for the development of ENS and the external environment in which we work. We have…

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…

The double plight of stateless migrants

Although the greatest numbers of stateless persons are not necessarily within the migrant population, particularly in Europe, with 244 million…

Ireland’s ad-hoc approach is failing stateless persons: Dublin seminar highlights shortfalls and need for formal procedures

In December 2015, the Council of the European Union’s Conclusions on Statelessness invited the European Commission to launch exchanges of good…

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…

The EU’s response to statelessness - Where next after Luxembourg?

I arrived in Luxembourg last week, curious to see further evidence of how policy-makers and other EU stakeholders intend to take forward the first…

Greece moves one step closer to introducing an effective statelessness determination procedure

Greek Parliament’s initiative to provide a legislative framework for the adoption of a statelessness determination procedure is welcome news. Once…