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Interviews
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…
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 of…
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 Asia…
Blog
“Non-Citizens” 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 does…
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 status…
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 ‘foreign fighters’ have been detained in Iraq and Syria since the territorial fall of the Islamic State…
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 a…
News
Time To Agree Concerted Action: Follow-up on Council of Europe and UNHCR statelessness conference
Last month we and our members were out in force at an important international statelessness conference organised by the Council of Europe and the UN…
Blog
Looking Back on 6 Years at the Helm of UNHCR’s Statelessness Section
After six years as the Chief of the Statelessness Section at UNHCR, Melanie Khanna reflects on the global efforts to end statelessness, tracing the…
Interviews
Interview with Laura Bingham, Senior Managing Legal Officer at the Open Society Justice Initiative
Laura Bingham works as a Senior Managing Legal Officer at the Open Society Justice Initiative (OSJI). She leads OSJI’s projects on the right to…
Editorial
Bridging the gap – can a Council of Europe initiative and intergovernmental conference next week deliver improved protection for stateless people?
I have lost count of the number of determined but wistful expressions I have seen on the faces of stateless people desperately seeking to end their…
Videos