Everything you need to know about statelessness

EU Strategy on the Rights of the Child (2021-24): ENS position paper

The European Commission is developing a new EU Strategy on the Rights of the Child (2021-24), to provide a framework for EU action on children’s…

Joint Submission to the Committee on the Rights of the Child at the 88th Pre-Sessional Working Group - United Kingdom

This submission to the 88th Pre-Sessional Working Group of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) on the right of every child to acquire and…

Joint Submission to the Human Rights Council at the 38th Session of the Universal Periodic Review - Denmark

This submission to the 38th Universal Periodic Review (UPR) regarding the right of every child to acquire a nationality and human rights challenges…

Joint Submission to the Human Rights Council at the 38th Session of the Universal Periodic Review - Latvia

This submission to the 38th Universal Periodic Review (UPR) on the human rights challenges regarding statelessness and the right to a nationality in…

Joint Submission to the Human Rights Council at the 38th Session of the Universal Periodic Review - Belgium

This submission to the 38th Universal Periodic Review (UPR) on the right to a nationality and human rights challenges pertaining to statelessness in…

ENS Newsletter - September 2020

The September 2020 newsletter edition includes an interview with Christiana Bukalo, ENS member, on her work on the new stateless.world platform. You…

Joint Submission to the Human Rights Council at the 37th Session of the Universal Periodic Review - Austria

This submission to the 37th Universal Periodic Review (UPR) on the right to a nationality and human rights challenges related to statelessness in…

Literature review and mapping study: Risks of statelessness among the children of refugees in Europe

Evidence from our work has highlighted barriers to birth registration, as well as gaps in nationality laws and problems with how legal safeguards to…

ENS Newsletter - June 2020

The June 2020 newsletter edition includes an interview with Nacho Hernández, Lawyer in the International Affairs Department of Fundación Cepaim, on…

“Even before the pandemic, statelessness has been invisible” - Involving stateless people in Europe’s COVID-19 response

Nobody understands the impact COVID-19 has on the lives of stateless people better than stateless people themselves. We believe responses to the…

Birth registration and the prevention of statelessness in Europe: identifying good practices and remaining barriers

Birth registration is a key way to prevent statelessness and ensure every child can acquire a nationality. Yet, some children in Europe still face…

What happens to people with no nationality in a public health crisis?

Stateless people – who lack any nationality - are excluded from many of the rights and protections afforded by States to their nationals. They are…