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Festive greetings to all
Thank you for following ENS blog updates in 2021. We’ll be taking a short break and are resuming our blog in January. Meanwhile, we wish you all the…
ENS Newsletter - December 2021
The December 2021 newsletter edition includes an interview with Christophe Poirel, Director of Human Rights at the Council of Europe, as well as…
Interview with Christophe Poirel, Director of Human Rights at the Council of Europe
Following an important international statelessness conference organised in September by the Council of Europe and the UN Refugee Agency, ENS spoke…
Battling statelessness as a community
Have you ever asked yourself if you are worthy? Am I worthy of love, worthy of this job, worthy of promotion? Am I worthy of joy? Am I worthy of…
Are parents of foundlings really “unknown”? - Avoiding statelessness under international nationality law
In popular understanding around the world, “foundlings” are often imagined as abandoned babies found outside churches. In practice, this limited…
Statelessness in the Asia Pacific: The birth of Nationality for All
With the increase in cases of statelessness in the Asia Pacific region and the impact of COVID-19 on stateless persons, Statelessness Network Asia…
Spotlighting Romani women’s activism and role in addressing statelessness in Europe
This blog is part of a collaboration between the European Network on Statelessness (ENS) and Romani women activists. Here, we want to draw attention…
Romani women’s activism and role in addressing statelessness in Europe
The voices of Romani women are all too often missing from policy debates on statelessness and legal identity. ENS has come together with Romani women…
“Non-Citizens” of the Baltics: Common Misconceptions explained
To this day, there are approximately 300,000 non-citizens in the Baltics, in Estonia and Latvia. In contrast to Estonia and Latvia, Lithuania does…
Without a nationality but not stateless: the recent judgment of the Swiss Federal Supreme Court in a case concerning the nationality status of a refugee originating from Western Sahara
In August 2021, the Swiss Supreme Federal Court, the highest judicial authority in Switzerland, issued a decision concerning the nationality status…
Why Europe needs to work with other regions to find creative solutions to birth registration and documentation of children born in conflict zones
European States and regional institutions need to step-up and commit to clear actions to protect the rights of all children to a legal identity and…