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Citizens of Nowhere: Statelessness and the quest to belong
What does it mean to be invisible in a world defined by borders? Journalist Anna Rascouët-Paz brings you into the lives of citizens of nowhere and…
Birth registration and the prevention of statelessness in Europe: identifying good practices and remaining barriers
Birth registration is a key way to prevent statelessness and ensure every child can acquire a nationality. Yet, some children in Europe still face…
Legal briefing: Statelessness and the right to respect for family and private life
Read our new legal briefing on statelessness and the right to respect for family and private life.
Joint submission to the Human Rights Committee on Poland
The Halina Nieć Legal Aid Center (HNLAC), with the support of European Network on Statelessness, made a joint submission to the Human Rights…
Joint submission to the Committee on the Rights of the Child on General Comment 27
As a member of the Working Group on Identity Rights, currently co-chaired by Child Identity Protection and the Institute on Statelessness and…
Mutual recognition of parenthood across the EU could prevent statelessness
In December 2022, the European Commission proposed a regulation to harmonise at EU level the rules of private international law relating to…
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…
Joint submission on Georgia to the Committee on the Rights of the Child
Rights Georgia and the European Network on Statelessness made a joint submission to the Committee on the Rights of the Child for the 97th Pre-…
New statelessness legislation in the Netherlands: worth the wait?
On the 6th of June 2023, Dutch Parliament finally passed a legislation package on statelessness that has been in the making since 2014. It introduces…
WEBINAR: Children’s right to a nationality and birth registration
This webinar aims to build practical awareness of how to recognise risks of statelessness and ensure that refugee children are protected and have…