Read our new legal briefing on statelessness and the right to respect for family and private life.
To be stateless is to have no nationality, and for millions of stateless people around the world, this results in widespread denial of human rights and undermines the universal right to a nationality.
The courts play an important role in developing and effectively implementing the right to a nationality and the human rights of stateless people. Recognising that role, our new legal briefing outlines how statelessness interferes with the right to respect for private and family life and how the courts can uphold that right.
Written in collaboration with The AIRE Centre, this briefing draws on the international and regional legal framework, as well as jurisprudence from the European Court of Human Rights and the Court of Justice of the European Union, to set out the positive obligation that States have to protect stateless people, uphold children’s right to a nationality and birth registration, implement effective and accessible routes to regularisation, and prevent the arbitrary denial of nationality.
