Everything you need to know about statelessness

Change is in the air: Statelessness and citizenship in Canada

As if the stars were aligning, the very same day as the first summit on Statelessness in Canada was held, the Government announced that it was moving…

DETENTION OR PROTECTION? - Vulnerable and stateless people in detention

Amnesty International, Doctors of the World, Stichting LOS – Meldpunt Vreemdelingendetentie and the European Network on Statelessness are co-…

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…

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…

Civil Society Submission on the right of every child to acquire a nationality under Article 7 CRC - Serbia

Submission by Praxis, the Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion and the European Network on Statelessness, to the Committee on the Rights of the…

What does statelessness look like?

Greg Constantine has spent a decade photographing people with no documentation, no nationality and no rights. We’ve worked with Greg to help capture…

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…