Browse through our library of news, events, blogs, interviews and publications. You can also access our Statelessness Index and our Statelessness Case Law Database.
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- Ensuring nationality rights
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Videos
No Papers, No Prospects? Mapping Statelessness In the 21st Century
What causes statelessness? How can stateless people be protected? And can statelessness be eradicated?
Blog
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…
Publications
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…
Blog
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…
Videos
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…
News
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…
Videos
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…
Blog
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…
Blog
"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…
Blog
Equating the rights of stateless persons with refugees in Spain
The new law should raise the standard of protection for those applying for stateless status and equate it to Spain’s law on asylum which offers a…
Interviews
ENS Interview - Nacho Hernández
ENS caught up with Nacho Hernández, Lawyer in the International Affairs Department of Fundación Cepaim, a Spain based civil society organisation and…
Blog