Everything you need to know about statelessness

Seizing new opportunities to address statelessness in the Dominican Republic

Following a decade of restrictive measures on migration and nationality matters, in late 2013 the Constitutional Tribunal in Santo Domingo issued a…

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…

Liberty, Equality, Fraternity…really? Why France’s forsaken “children of ISIS”* may grow up to view the French Republic’s values differently.

There are currently an estimated 300 French children stranded in various displacement camps in Northeastern Syria. Deprivation of nationality of one…

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…

Joint Submission to the Human Rights Council at the 38th Session of the Universal Periodic Review - Latvia

This submission to the 38th Universal Periodic Review (UPR) on the human rights challenges regarding statelessness and the right to a nationality in…

Joint Submission to the Human Rights Council at the 38th Session of the Universal Periodic Review - Belgium

This submission to the 38th Universal Periodic Review (UPR) on the right to a nationality and human rights challenges pertaining to statelessness in…

Waiting for a nationality - Stateless in Spain

Meimuna, a young Sahrawi woman, had to wait three years before she was granted recognition as a stateless person. Whilst Spain’s law on asylum…

ENS and Fundacion Cepaim call for legislative reforms to improve the situation of stateless people in Spain

In a joint letter sent to the Spanish Prime Minister yesterday, ENS and Fundación Cepaim launched a campaign calling on Spain to introduce critical…

Ending statelessness is possible, but we cannot do it without the people affected by it

Currently, more than half a million people are stateless in Europe. Nobody understands the impact of living without a nationality better than…

Citizenship and the fall of the British Empire: A system of exclusion

After 258 years under British and French colonial rule, Mauritius gained independence in 1968. The new Constitution of Mauritius created different…

Joint Submission to the Human Rights Council at the 37th Session of the Universal Periodic Review - Austria

This submission to the 37th Universal Periodic Review (UPR) on the right to a nationality and human rights challenges related to statelessness in…

"Everything is stuck”: Left in limbo and stateless as a British Overseas Citizen

I arrived in the UK in 2001 at the age of twenty from Malaysia, with feelings of excitement as I embarked on an Engineering Degree at the University…