Browse through our library of news, events, blogs, interviews and publications. You can also access our Statelessness Index and our Statelessness Case Law Database.

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The Faces of Statelessness in Europe – the answers to the ‘wheres’, ‘whys’ and ‘hows’ on statelessness

Do you ever wonder where stateless people live, what their day-to-day lives look like or how they try to solve their predicament?
/ Valeriia Cherednichenko, Associate Protection Officer, UNHCR Bureau for Europe
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A new website to help stateless people in the UK

If you are a person who is so fortunate as to always have had a nationality, imagine for a moment that you are not recognised as a citizen of any

/ Cynthia Orchard, Statelessness Policy and Casework Coordinator at Asylum Aid (part of Migrants Resource Centre)
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#RomaBelong – Broadening the debate on how to end Roma statelessness

During the International Week against Racism (12-25 March 2018) one of the events organised in Munich looked at the issue of statelessness among

/ Kateryna Gaidei, Tenth of April (Desyate Kvitnya)
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Using the Statelessness Index as a tool to help secure law and policy reform in Serbia

Is my country party to international conventions dealing with statelessness? Is there any data on the stateless population? Is there a procedure to

/ Milan Radojev, Status and Socioeconomic Rights Programme Coordinator, Praxis
Interviews

Interview with Nils MuiĆŸnieks, the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights

ENS caught up with Nils MuiĆŸnieks, the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights. In this exclusive interview, now nearing the end of his term

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Submission to the Special Rapporteur’s upcoming Thematic report on racial and ethnic based discrimination through nationality and citizenship exclusion

ENS in partnership with the European Roma Rights Centre (ERRC) and the Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion (ISI) made a joint submission –

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Five things you need to know about our new Statelessness Index

Statelessness is a legal anomaly that affects over half a million people in Europe. Despite the scale of the problem, countries across Europe have

/ Nina Murray, Research & Policy Coordinator at the European Network on Statelessness
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Engaging with the media as a tool for addressing statelessness

Since the beginning of 2017, the Statelessness Network Asia Pacific (SNAP) has partnered with the University of New South Wales (UNSW) on a project

/ Patrick Gifford, Political Science Honours Student at the University of New South Wales and Intern with the Statelessness Network Asia Pacific
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Groundbreaking Arab League declaration heightens global momentum to end gender discrimination in nationality laws

Amid the tragedy and uncertainty of today’s global challenges, there have been several important developments in the fight for gender equality in the

/ Catherine Harrington, Campaign Manager, Global Campaign for Equal Nationality Rights
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Harmonising standards on statelessness determination in Europe

Nationality is the closest legal tie between a natural person and a state. Stateless individuals lack this bond. To provide stateless persons with

/ Noémi Radnai, JD in Law, Eötvös Lorånd University and MA in International Relations, Corvinus University of Budapest
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Lessons learned from the Americas: political will and coordinated action to eradicate statelessness

Since the launch of UNHCR’s #IBelong Campaign in 2014, it has been suggested that the Americas could be the first “statelessness free” region. This

/ Francisco Quintana, co-founder Americas Network on Nationality and Statelessness
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Citizenship deprivation: differential treatment or discrimination?

After just three months in office, the Netherland’s Minister of Justice, Ferdinand Grapperhaus has already expressed his intention to strip two dual

/ Sangita Jaghai, PhD Candidate Tilburg Law School