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EU Strategy on the Rights of the Child (2021-24): ENS position paper
The European Commission is developing a new EU Strategy on the Rights of the Child (2021-24), to provide a framework for EU action on children’s…
Joint Submission to the Committee on the Rights of the Child at the 88th Pre-Sessional Working Group - United Kingdom
This submission to the 88th Pre-Sessional Working Group of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) on the right of every child to acquire and…
Joint Submission to the Human Rights Council at the 38th Session of the Universal Periodic Review - Denmark
This submission to the 38th Universal Periodic Review (UPR) regarding the right of every child to acquire a nationality and human rights challenges…
Literature review and mapping study: Risks of statelessness among the children of refugees in Europe
Evidence from our work has highlighted barriers to birth registration, as well as gaps in nationality laws and problems with how legal safeguards to…
Birth registration and the prevention of statelessness in Europe: identifying good practices and remaining barriers
Birth registration is a key way to prevent statelessness and ensure every child can acquire a nationality. Yet, some children in Europe still face…
No child should be stateless: Ensuring the right to a nationality for children in migration in Europe
Despite obligations for all European States to fulfil every child’s right to acquire a nationality, current legislation and practice means that…
No Child Should be Stateless in Austria
This new report by the European Network on Statelessness, DLA Piper, and Diakonie Fluchtlingsdienst sheds light on the issue of childhood…
Birth registration and statelessness
Most, but not all of us, have had our births registered. The lack of birth registration is not the same as statelessness, yet it heightens the risk…
Why do children become stateless?
Children get their nationality through different types of connections they have with a country. But sometime their right to a nationality is denied…
What does it mean to be stateless?
Have you ever wondered what exactly does it mean to be stateless? This ENS infographic explains what it's like to grow up in Europe without a…
Ending Childhood Statelessness – A Comparative Study of Safeguards to Ensure the Right to a Nationality for Children Born in Europe
The working paper complements our 2015 report No Child Should Be Stateless by providing deeper analysis of the nationality laws of 45 European…