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

Summary
Christmas Blog

Festive greetings to all

Thank you for following ENS blog updates in 2021.Ā Weā€™ll be taking a short break and are resuming our blog in January. Meanwhile, we wish you all theā€¦
/ ENS Team
Christophe Interviews

Interview with Christophe Poirel, Director of Human Rights at the Council of Europe

Following anĀ important international statelessness conferenceĀ organised in September by the Council of Europe and the UN Refugee Agency, ENS spokeā€¦
statefree Blog

Battling statelessness as a community

Have you ever asked yourself if you are worthy? Am I worthy of love, worthy of this job, worthy of promotion? Am I worthy of joy? Am I worthy ofā€¦
/ Christiana Bukalo, Co-founder of Statefree & Expert by experience
Image by Omar Lopez. Blog

Are parents of foundlings really ā€œunknownā€? - Avoiding statelessness under international nationality law

In popular understanding around the world, ā€œfoundlingsā€ are often imagined as abandoned babies found outside churches. In practice, this limitedā€¦
/ Mai Kaneko-Iwase, PhD (Law), Researcher, Faculty of Law, Maastricht University, the Netherlands*
Assam North East, India, Harvesting, Rural women workers are plucking tender tea shoots in tea gardens Blog

Statelessness in the Asia Pacific: The birth of Nationality for All

With the increase in cases of statelessness in the Asia Pacific region and the impact of COVID-19 on stateless persons, Statelessness Network Asiaā€¦
/ Subin Mulmi, Executive Director, Nationality for All (NFA)
International Roma Women's Conference Blog

Spotlighting Romani womenā€™s activism and role in addressing statelessness in Europe

This blog is part of a collaboration between the European Network on Statelessness (ENS) and Romani women activists. Here, we want to draw attentionā€¦
/ Nina Murray, Michelle Van Burik, Sonja Barbul, Ina Majka, Brisilda Taco, Alison Huyghe and Tamara Smith
ENS logo on map of europe Publications

Romani womenā€™s activism and role in addressing statelessness in Europe

The voices of Romani women are all too often missing from policy debatesĀ onĀ statelessness and legal identity.Ā ENSĀ hasĀ comeĀ togetherĀ with Romani womenā€¦
/ Advocacy Briefing
The Freedom Monument, Riga, Latvia. Blog

ā€œNon-Citizensā€ of the Baltics: Common Misconceptions explained

To this day, there are approximately 300,000 non-citizens in the Baltics, in Estonia and Latvia. In contrast to Estonia and Latvia, Lithuania doesā€¦
/ By a Latvian non-citizen
Tindouf Blog

Without a nationality but not stateless: the recent judgment of the Swiss Federal Supreme Court in a case concerning the nationality status of a refugee originating from Western Sahara

In August 2021, the Swiss Supreme Federal Court, the highest judicial authority in Switzerland, issued a decision concerning the nationality statusā€¦
/ Cecilia Manzotti ā€“ PhD candidate, University of Sussex
Image by Markus Spiske Editorial

Why Europe needs to work with other regions to find creative solutions to birth registration and documentation of children born in conflict zones

European States and regional institutions need to step-up and commit to clear actions to protect the rights of all children to a legal identity andā€¦
/ Alison Huyghe, Policy & Advocacy Officer, The European Network on Statelessness
Levi Meir Clancy Blog

Expert opinion: How the Netherlands, France and the UK are leaving children stranded at risk of statelessness in Iraq and Syria

Thousands of children associated with alleged ā€˜foreign fightersā€™ have been detained in Iraq and Syria since the territorial fall of the Islamic Stateā€¦
/ Professor RenĆ© DeGroot (Professor emeritus, Maastricht University), PhilomĆØne Franssen (Independent consultant), Alison Harvey (Barrister at No5 Chambers) and Dr Rachel Pougnet (University of Bristol)
ARC Blog

Understanding Statelessness through Country of Origin Information (COI)

Country of Origin Information (COI) is an important element in refugee status determination procedures, as it helps to evaluate whether there is aā€¦
/ Stephanie Huber, Director of Asylum Research Centre (ARC) Foundation and Nina Murray, Head of Policy and Research, The European Network on Statelessness