Everything you need to know about statelessness

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…

Working together with stateless communities for change: developing guidelines for meaningful, collaborative advocacy on statelessness

On Friday 12th December, supported by the Global Alliance to End Statelessness, we held a Regional Network Lab (RNL) exploring the topic ‘Towards…

Addressing statelessness in a changing world – using the 2025 GRF Progress Review to assess progress made since the 2024 High-Level Segment on Statelessness

Fifteen months ago I spoke to a packed-out Palais des Nations at the launch of the Global Alliance to End Statelessness (GAtES) as part of the High-…

Harnessing pro bono collaboration: reflections on the PILnet Global Forum and new ways to address statelessness through the law

November has been a month of inspiring exchanges and collective drive. At a time when funding cuts are severely affecting work on statelessness…

Building Power Through Collective Action: Reflecting on our Statelessness & Innovation Conference

Last week, we had the privilege of jointly organising the Statelessness & Innovation conference in Berlin with stateless-led organisation,…

Have Your Say: help shape the future of the Statelessness Index

Since its launch in 2018, the Statelessness Index has become a vital tool for monitoring how European countries protect stateless people, and track…

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…

Editorial: A year of mixed progress – Europe’s ongoing efforts to advance the right to a nationality and address statelessness

Next week at our annual state of play assessment webinar on statelessness in Europe, we will launch two new Statelessness Index country profiles for…

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…

Amplifying Voices: Crafting Authentic Storytelling Guidelines

In a world where countless stories go unheard, reinterpreted or misconstrued, it is vital that marginalised communities can share their narratives…

Using the law to end statelessness

Courts are often perceived as complex and distant institutions that are inaccessible and slow to make decisions. While this is not untrue, the courts…