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Between Law and Reality: the Challenges for Palestinian Refugees in Bulgaria
On 13 June 2024, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) issued a landmark judgment in case C-563/22, addressing the legal status of…
Palestinian citizens of Israel fear risk of becoming stateless amidst rising calls for citizenship revocation
Nearly 10,000 Palestinians have had their residency status revoked by the Israeli government in East Jerusalem since 2000 according to B’Tselem – The…
Briefing on the right to a nationality of children born to Palestinian parents in Belgium
In response to recent reports that the Belgian Immigration Office has incentivised municipalities to withdraw the Belgian nationality of children…
ECJ Advocate-General Opinion on Palestinian Refugees: A Step in the Right Direction
ENS welcomes the opinion issued by Advocate-General Emiliou of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) as a step in the right direction to addressing and…
Why statelessness cannot be ignored in the violence in Gaza and Israel
Joint Statement by the MENA Statelessness Network (Hawiati), European Network on Statelessness, and Statefree. We issue this statement as three civil…
Open Call For An Immediate Ceasefire In The Gaza Strip And Israel
We’ve joined over 300 organisations in over 50 countries to show solidarity in calling for an immediate ceasefire in the Gaza Strip and Israel.
Briefing: Palestinians and the search for protection as refugees and stateless persons in Europe
This briefing offers a succinct summary of key issues faced by Palestinians when seeking protection and recommendations to different actors in Europe…
“It’s a terrible thing to lose hope”: Re-imagining Protection for Palestinians as Refugees and Stateless Persons
I have represented hundreds of refugees and approximately 20 stateless people seeking protection in the UK, most of them with heart-breaking cases.…
Palestinians and the Search for Protection as Refugees and Stateless Persons
This report is the result of a joint collaboration between ENS and BADIL (the Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights). It…
‘Syria’s Palestinians: A new Nakba’
Palestinian refugees from Syria are among those most impacted by the country’s brutal 10-year conflict. A new report documents the secondary forced…
Introducing “Hawiati”: A network for stateless solidarity in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA)
Statelessness is a significant problem across the MENA. With national legal frameworks in the region taking little account of the reality of…