Browse through our library of news, events, blogs, interviews and publications. You can also access our Statelessness Index and our Statelessness Case Law Database.

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Festive greetings to all of our readers

Thank you for following ENS updates in 2017. It's been a busy and successful year, in great part thanks to our membership and partners who've…
/ ENS Team
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#MYCS2017 - The first ever Malaysian Youth Congress on Statelessness

It has only been just over a month since the successful conclusion of the inaugural Malaysian Youth Network on Statelessness 2017 (MYCS 2017) and…
/ Nandakumar NK and Gwendoline Esther Hay, Malaysian Youth Congress on Statelessness Delegates
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Churches’ advocacy for the rights of stateless people in Europe

The World Council of Churches in collaboration with Bread for the World organised a conference with a focus on statelessness in European context on…
/ Dr Isabel Apawo Phiri, Deputy General Secretary: Public Witness and Diakonia, at the World Council of Churches
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'I feel that I belong too’ – stateless Roma in Europe

Thirteen-year-old Lirije is a stateless Roma girl who lives in Skopje, in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. Like her, more than 75% of the…
/ Inge Sturkenboom, UNHCR
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UK faith leaders urge government to end detention of stateless people

Over the last three months, Scottish Faiths Action for Refugees and ENS have been working in partnership to promote the #LockedInLimbo campaign and…
/ David Bradwell, Refugee Co-ordinator for Scottish Faiths Action for Refugees and member of the Executive Committee of the Churches’ Commission for Migrants in Europe
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Statelessness in Sweden and the case of unreturnable Moroccan "street children" left at risk of statelessness

Almost a year has passed since UNHCR published its 2016 report Mapping Statelessness in Sweden, which critiqued Sweden for its lack of an official…
/ Isabelle Rothstein, MSc Global Migration (UCL) & Legal Volunteer (Asylum Aid)
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Mobilising to address statelessness in the Netherlands

It’s Friday night in Amsterdam and I’m on my way home after the UNHCR’s #iBelong campaign event and the spin-off event organised by ASKV Refugee…
/ Marlotte van Dael, ASKV Refugee Support
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Denial and denigration: How discrimination feeds statelessness

Ethnic, national, religious and linguistic minorities make up a disproportionate number of the world’s stateless population. While statelessness may…
/ Andrea Spitálszky, Europe Legal Officer, Minority Rights Group International (MRG)
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#RomaBelong – Tackling Roma statelessness in the Western Balkans and Ukraine

“I feel bad because I am from here but they are not giving me citizenship. I feel I don’t belong here. God forbid if I die, they will not bury me…
/ Nina Murray, European Network on Statelessness
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One man’s struggle for an identity

We all know that some ten million people around the world are stateless. Often they are reduced to statistics, case files and quotes. Art can be a…
/ Gerard van Leeuwen, Author
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How the Council of Europe is working to help protect stateless refugees and migrants from ending up #LockedinLimbo

I was pleased to be able to lend my voice to the European Network on Statelessness’ #LockedInLimbo campaign at an event at the Parliamentary Assembly…
/ Tomáš Boček, CoE Secretary General's Special Representative on Migration and Refugees
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Citizenship for sale – At a cost stateless people can ill afford

Stateless people in the UK face enormous hurdles in the road to becoming British citizens. One of those barriers is the extraordinarily high cost of…
/ Cynthia Orchard, Legal Policy Officer at Asylum Aid