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Preventing and solving statelessness in European law
Within the member states of the Council of Europe and the European Union, much remains to be done to address statelessness. While the laws created by…
“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.…
BRIEFING #3: Protection gaps for stateless refugees from Ukraine
This is the third advocacy briefing in our series on statelessness and the Ukraine crisis. It provides updated information and recommendations on…
Submission to inform the European Commission 2022 Enlargement Package: progress towards addressing statelessness
Our written submission on progress towards addressing statelessness in EU Enlargement countries to inform the European Commission's (DG NEAR) 2022…
Open letter to EU Commissioner for Home Affairs calling for action to ensure access to temporary protection for stateless people fleeing the war in Ukraine
Dear Commissioner Johansson, I write to request a meeting, on behalf of the European Network on Statelessness and our over 170 civil society members…
Assisting stateless people trapped in Ukraine: report from the ground
The staff of R2P’s statelessness project have spent the last few weeks trying to reach their approximately 700 beneficiaries to assess their…
Interview with Christophe Poirel, Director of Human Rights at the Council of Europe
Following an important international statelessness conference organised in September by the Council of Europe and the UN Refugee Agency, ENS spoke…
FRA-ECtHR updated Handbook on European law relating to asylum, borders and immigration: Helping to implement fundamental rights safeguards
European law relating to asylum, borders and immigration is developing fast. The European Convention on Human Rights and European Union (EU) law both…
EU strategy on the rights of the child marks an important step towards addressing childhood statelessness
In an important step towards ending childhood statelessness, the new EU Strategy on the Rights of the Child recognises the impact of statelessness on…
Protecting the right to a nationality for children of same-sex couples in the EU – A key issue before the CJEU in V.M.A. v Stolichna Obsthina (C-490/20)
The enjoyment of LGBTIQ* rights varies across Europe. As a result, children of same-sex couples can face problems with recognition of civil status,…
Statelessness and the EU Pact on Asylum and Migration: Analysis and Recommendations
Our analysis focuses on the impact the proposals set out by the European Commission in September 2020 would have on the fundamental rights of…