Everything you need to know about statelessness

Removing barriers to birth registration in Albania - No child in Europe should grow up stateless

"I cannot register them at school or any hospital. I have only the two boys. I want... I only want to register my two boys..."

New #RomaBelong research documents the effects of statelessness on Roma living in Ukraine and sets recommendation on how to tackle it

Even though Ukraine was among the first post-Soviet countries to adopt its own legislation on citizenship, the issue of statelessness continues to be…

#RomaBelong - Statelessness, Discrimination and Marginalisation of Roma in Ukraine

Produced by the by the civic organisation “Desyate Kvitnya” (10th April), European Roma Rights Centre (ERRC), the European Network on Statelessness (…

#RomaBelong Workshop – European Youth Centre, Strasbourg; 10–11 Oct 2018

Since 2016, the European Network on Statelessness has been working in partnership with the European Roma Rights Centre and the Institute on…

Joint alternative report on Serbia to the Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)

Alternative report on Serbia prepared by Praxis, the Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion, the European Network on Statelessness and the European…

Addressing Roma statelessness in Albania and beyond

On Friday we published the latest report in our #RomaBelong series, a country study focusing on the link between statelessness, marginalisation and…

#RomaBelong - Statelessness, Discrimination and Marginalisation of Roma in Albania

Produced by the Tirana Legal Aid Society (TLAS), European Roma Rights Centre (ERRC), the European Network on Statelessness (ENS) and the Institute on…

Shining a light on the link between statelessness and minorities

The UN Special Rapporteur on Minorities, Fernand de Varennes, is currently in the process of compiling a thematic report on the link between…

Submission to the Special Rapporteur on Minority Issues – Statelessness: A Minorities Issue

This joint submission to the Special Rapporteur on Minority Issues by the European Roma Rights Centre (ERRC), the European Network on Statelessness (…

#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…

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 –…

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…