Everything you need to know about statelessness

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…

Editorial: “If you can’t see a problem, you can’t fix it” – Five things that need to happen to move from the visibility at UNHCR’s High-Level Segment on Statelessness to tangible impact

When UNHCR’s ten-year #IBelong campaign to end statelessness launched back in 2014, I well remember the excitement many of us working on…

Editorial: Taking steps to improve how statelessness is identified and addressed in the refugee context

They registered me as Syrian, and I didn't tell them that I am ‘maktouma’ [stateless]... In a later interview, I tried to explain that I am…

Five key takeaways on statelessness from UNHCR’s Global NGO Consultations

Just back from a typically intensive week in Geneva for UNHCR’s Global NGO Consultations, it seems a good time to take stock of the state of play on…

New Year’s resolutions – five ways the international community can and must do more to address statelessness

In December, UNHCR organised the second ever Global Refugee Forum. ENS was among the civil society representatives invited to participate. Here are…

ENS Interview with Elisabeth Tan, Director, UNHCR Division of International Protection

ENS was pleased to catch up with Elizabeth Tan, Director of UNHCR's Division of International Protection, to ask about the Global Alliance to End…

GRF Linked Event: Multi-Stakeholder Approaches Towards Ending Statelessness

We are delighted to have co-sponsored this Global Refugee Forum Linked Event Multi-Stakeholder Approaches Towards Ending Statelessness.

Recognising recent progress in global efforts to address statelessness but also the need for greater engagement and resourcing

Collective and collaborative action to end statelessness has always been at the heart of ENS’s mission. In this editorial, ENS Director Chris Nash…

From evaluation to implementation – Casting a constructively critical eye over UNHCR’s statelessness work

The start of any new year offers a moment for pause and reflection, and I begin 2022 reflecting on how we can collectively leverage more traction,…

Time To Agree Concerted Action: Follow-up on Council of Europe and UNHCR statelessness conference

Last month we and our members were out in force at an important international statelessness conference organised by the Council of Europe and the UN…

Looking Back on 6 Years at the Helm of UNHCR’s Statelessness Section

After six years as the Chief of the Statelessness Section at UNHCR, Melanie Khanna reflects on the global efforts to end statelessness, tracing the…