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WEBINAR: Identifying and protecting displaced stateless people in Europe: What needs to happen next?

Join us on 23rd March 2026, 11.30-12.45 CET, for a webinar bringing together statelessness experts, practitioners and advocates to highlight good…
23 March 2026 11:30 - 12:45 CET
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State-of-play assessment on statelessness in Europe shows reasons to celebrate, some setbacks and opportunities to act

The Statelessness Index remains an indispensable guide for policy makers, legal experts, and advocates working to ensure the right to a nationality…
/ PatrĂ­cia Cabral, Legal Policy Coordinator, European Network on Statelessness
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Submission to the UN Special Rapporteur on Trafficking

European Network on Statelessness welcomes the opportunity to contribute to the upcoming report on trafficking to the Human Rights Council, and the…
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Submission of evidence to inform the new EU Strategy on Combatting Trafficking in Human Beings

European Network on Statelessness welcomes the opportunity to contribute evidence to inform the forthcoming update to the EU Strategy on Combating…
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Our Intervention at the Global Refugee Forum Progress Review 2025

Watch our Director Chris Nash intervene at the UNHCR High-Level Global Refugee Forum Progress Review in Geneva this week – calling on States to take…
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Interview with our Community Advisory Board on our work with Palestinians

Our new Community Advisory Board (CAB), made up of four members with diverse Palestinian backgrounds, is informing our work to improve access to…
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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…
/ Cameron Nye and Nina Murray, European Network on Statelessness
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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…
/ Dr. Haqqi Bahram, Institute for Research on Migration, Ethnicity and Society (REMESO), Linköping University.
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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…
/ Nowras Rahhal, ENS community member
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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…
/ Magdalena Miteva, Attorney-at-Law, Foundation for Access to Rights (FAR)
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A new right of residence for stateless people in Belgium – does it offer sufficient protection?

On 8 February 2024, the Belgian Federal Parliament adopted a law introducing a procedure for stateless people to obtain a residence permit in Belgium…
/ Clara Van Thillo, PhD Researcher at the Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies and Institute for International Law, KU Leuven, funded by Research Foundation Flanders (FWO).
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WEBINAR: Detention and return: protecting the rights of stateless people

This webinar focussed on protecting stateless people from arbitrary detention in the context of returns procedures. Held on Tuesday 30 May, it was…
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