Everything you need to know about statelessness

Submission to the 2025 report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Belarus to the Human Rights Council

ENS has contributed a submission to the 2025 report of the Special Rapporteur before the 59th session of the Human Rights Council on the situation of…

Editorial: A year of mixed progress – Europe’s ongoing efforts to advance the right to a nationality and address statelessness

Next week at our annual state of play assessment webinar on statelessness in Europe, we will launch two new Statelessness Index country profiles for…

Briefing: Stateless people in the UK

Across the UK, stateless people and people at risk of statelessness are living in limbo, facing an uphill battle to resolve their status and unable…

Litigating the right to a nationality

In November 2024, UNHCR and the Open Society Justice Initiative (OSJI) jointly published a new resource for those seeking legal remedies for…

“If you can’t see a problem, you can’t fix it.” - ENS Director Chris Nash’s presentation at UNHCR’s High-Level Segment on Statelessness

On Monday 14th October, the High-Level Segment on Statelessness (HLS) took place in Geneva. Held as part of this year’s UNHCR ExCom meeting, bringing…

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…

Implementing the new statelessness provisions in the EU Pact on Migration and Asylum

When the EU Pact on Migration and Asylum was first introduced in September 2020, statelessness was invisible.   Following our extensive engagement…

“If you can’t see a problem, you can’t fix it” – Five things that need to happen to move from the visibility at UNHCR’s High-Level Segment on Statelessness to tangible impact

When UNHCR’s ten-year #IBelong campaign to end statelessness launched back in 2014, I well remember the excitement many of us working on…

Marking the launch of the Global Alliance to End Statelessness

On Monday 14 October ENS will be in Geneva to attend the launch of the Global Alliance to End Statelessness during a High-Level Segment on…

Our recommendations ahead of UNHCR’s High-Level Segment on Statelessness

On Monday 14th October, ENS will be in Geneva to attend and speak at a High-Level Segment on Statelessness (HLS), which will form a key part of this…

Editorial: Taking steps to improve how statelessness is identified and addressed in the refugee context

They registered me as Syrian, and I didn't tell them that I am ‘maktouma’ [stateless]... In a later interview, I tried to explain that I am…

Rolling out our new identification toolkit

Identifying statelessness as early as possible in the asylum process is crucial, to ensure that stateless refugees can access their rights and don’t…