Everything you need to know about statelessness

Joint submission to the Human Rights Committee on North Macedonia

The Macedonian Young Lawyers Association and the European Network on Statelessness made a joint submission to the Human Rights Committee in advance…

Syria has the power to change, from one of the biggest statelessness exporters to a role model for the Global North

Statelessness has impacted the lives of thousands in Syria, exacerbated by decades of discriminatory policies by the previous Assad regime and the…

'Stateless for two generations’: BB’s story and the fight to end statelessness in North Macedonia

As part of the Roma Integration Phase III Programme, a joint initiative of the European Union and the Council of Europe, efforts are being made to…

Submission to inform the European Commission 2025 Enlargement Package

ENS has contributed a written submission to inform the European Commission (DG ENEST) 2025 Enlargement Package.

ENS Member Roma Versitas Kosovo wins EU Roma Integration Award

In April 2025, we attended the 2025 EU Award for Roma Integration in the Western Balkans and Türkiye. 

The statelessness of displaced persons from Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh) from the perspectives of international law and German administrative law

In September 2024, the German Administrative Court in Kassel issued a landmark ruling recognising ethnic Armenians from Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh) as…

No Country to Call Home: the Hidden Crisis of Statelessness in the UK and beyond

"Statelessness is like being a ghost—except no one’s even scared of you." – Anonymous Imagine being born and raised in a country, speaking the…

Interview with Marin Roman, Coordinator of the Global Alliance to End Statelessness Secretariat

We caught up with Marin Roman, Senior Statelessness Officer at UNHCR, and Coordinator of the Global Alliance to End Statelessness Secretariat, to…

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…

Research sheds light on childhood statelessness litigation

Litigation involving childhood statelessness sheds light on how statelessness can exacerbate the vulnerabilities inherent in being a child litigant.…

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…

A new briefing, Stateless People in the UK: at risk of legal limbo, in need of protection

In January 2025, the Jesuit Refugee Service UK, Asylum Aid, the University of Liverpool Law Clinic, the European Network on Statelessness, and…