Everything you need to know about statelessness

ENS stateless changemakers meet with EU and Council of Europe policymakers in Strasbourg

The voices of people with lived experience of statelessness need to be heard in places where the decisions that affect them are made. That’s why last…

Unione Italiana Apolidi: the first stateless-led organization in Italy

In the global context, statelessness affects millions of people around the world, with many more at risk of statelessness. In Italy, according to…

#YearOfSolutions: Omar Othman stresses the need for lived experience in advocating for change

Nobody understands the impact of living without a nationality better than stateless people themselves, yet the experiences of stateless people are…

Lynn - Life as a stateless refugee - #StatelessJourneys

Lynn Khatib is one of the stateless changemakers working with ENS to improve protection for stateless refugees.

Ahmed - "I certainly don't know" #StatelessJourneys

Ahmed is one of the stateless changemakers working with ENS to improve protection for stateless refugees. 

Call me by my name - what it means to be stateless

This poem was created by a group of Rohingya youth in Bradford, in partnership with the British Rohingya Association & the European Network on…

Children born in the largest refugee camp in the world teach us what being stateless means to them

From being born without a State in the world's largest refugee camp to struggling to gain nationality in diaspora communities, statelessness has…

”Please don't buy me a plane ticket to present at your event, I don't have a passport” – the birth of ENS’s community speaker policy

This blog launches ENS’s community speaker policy; a policy co-designed with people affected by statelessness that provides good practice guidance on…

ENS's External Community Speaker Policy

ENS’s community speaker policy is co-designed with people affected by statelessness and provides good practice guidance on how to engage and work…

The Roma Belong Project: Supporting Roma, Ashkali and Egyptian communities in Kosovo

Roma, Ashkali and Egyptian communities in Kosovo are disproportionately affected by the risk of statelessness and its associated impact on accessing…

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…

Spotlighting Romani women’s activism and role in addressing statelessness in Europe

This blog is part of a collaboration between the European Network on Statelessness (ENS) and Romani women activists. Here, we want to draw attention…