Everything you need to know about statelessness

Branded an "extremist", denied a passport: a stateless entrepreneur in democratic Europe

When building a startup becomes a crime What does it mean to be a successful tech founder one day, and a stateless "extremist" the next? This is…

Editorial: Statelessness among Roma in the Western Balkans - progress, gaps, and the road ahead

Fourteen years ago, leaders from across the Western Balkans came together and made an important pledge through the Zagreb Declaration: to remove all…

Stateless Kurds of Syria in Germany and Sweden

In this blog, Haqqi Bahram reflects on some findings from his doctoral dissertation on the experiences of stateless Kurds of Syria as they navigate…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Intervention before the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination & the Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families

As part of the process of drafting the general recommendations Nos. 38 and 39 (2024) of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (…

Intervention before the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination

As part of the process of drafting the General Recommendation N° 37 on racial discrimination in the enjoyment of the right to health, ENS submitted…

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…