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Celebrating progress in the protection of rainbow families, but more needs to be done
Since the day they were born, baby Sara and baby Sofia have been waiting to receive an identity document or a passport and are at risk of…
BORN STATELESS - families and lawyers share the impacts of child statelessness in Europe
Families and lawyers share the impacts of child statelessness in Europe.
Seeking a place to belong: addressing statelessness among refugee children in Europe
As part of our Stateless Journeys project, ENS has been working with our members in five European countries to address cases of statelessness among…
Preventing and solving statelessness in European law
Within the member states of the Council of Europe and the European Union, much remains to be done to address statelessness. While the laws created by…
Birth registration of Roma children is becoming more difficult: a case study from Serbia
This piece draws on Praxis’ work providing free legal aid to people at risk of statelessness in Serbia. It details the case of Sara, a Roma child…
“Het eindeloze wachten heeft mij kapot gemaakt” – zullen de wetsvoorstellen staatloosheid ter discussie in Tweede Kamer deze week een oplossing bieden voor staatlozen in Nederland?
In aanloop naar het debat van 25 mei in de Tweede Kamer over nieuwe ontwerpwetgeving betreffende staatloosheid analyseren onze Nederlandse leden de…
Nationality & Borders Bill Briefing for House of Lords Committee Stage
This briefing concerns Clause 9 ‘deprivation of citizenship’ and Clause 10 ‘stateless minors’ of Part 1 (Nationality) of the Nationality &…
Interview with Christophe Poirel, Director of Human Rights at the Council of Europe
Following an important international statelessness conference organised in September by the Council of Europe and the UN Refugee Agency, ENS spoke…
Are parents of foundlings really “unknown”? - Avoiding statelessness under international nationality law
In popular understanding around the world, “foundlings” are often imagined as abandoned babies found outside churches. In practice, this limited…
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 ‘foreign fighters’ have been detained in Iraq and Syria since the territorial fall of the Islamic State…
The Statelessness Case Law Database: LGBTQ+ families, surrogacy and the legal identity of unsanctioned babies
The new ENS Statelessness Case Law Database offers a lens through which we can observe how European laws deal with the reality of statelessness. In…