European Network on Statelessness

We are excited to share highlights from our first Regional Network Lab! This event brought together changemakers from around the world to foster trans-regional exchange and share knowledge to advance efforts to end statelessness. 🌍🤝 Hosted in Geneva, the Lab provided a unique space for civil society leaders, regional networks, academia, and UNHCR to collaborate, share best practices and solutions, and strengthen connections. Dive into the full story and explore how the Global Alliance is driving meaningful change https://lnkd.in/dm8k5ghZ #GlobalAlliance #EndStatelessness #UniteToEndStatelessness #IBelong

I am pleased to share that my blog article, Invisible Ageing: Statelessness, Ethnicity and Ageing in North Macedonia through an Intersectional Lens has been published. It explores perspectives on statelessness, a subject I am deeply passionate about. 📚 Writing this piece allowed me to delve into intersectionality between statelessness, ageing and ethnicity, illustrated through the example of the Romani in North Macedonia. ✍ Many thanks to Aleksandra Efremova for her valuable contribution! The blog post is part of our project related to ageing in Southeastern Europe funded by the VolkswagenStiftung. I invite you to read the article here:

Identifying #statelessness early is crucial to prevent stateless refugees from falling through the cracks. Our country-specific toolkits will support frontline asylum practitioners across Europe and beyond to identify when somebody might be stateless. Our staff and members explain why the toolkit is a vital resource for identifying and addressing statelessness. Help us spread the word! Special thanks to Denis Neselovskyi Statefree e.V., Melis Refugee Rights Türkiye and Magdalena Foundation for Access to Rights (FAR) Sirazul Islam Nina Murray. #HumanRights #Statelessness

We did it! 🥳 As a member of the Child Rights Action Group (CRAG), World Vision EU Representation is proud to celebrate the re-establishment of the European Parliament Intergroup on Children’s Rights. We're excited to continue working with the European Parliament over the next five years to mainstream children’s rights across and beyond the EU and make sure that their voices are taken into account in all EU policies, including in the EU's external action. We count on the European Parliament's strong leadership and commitment to ensure a brighter and safer present and future for every child.

When the new EU Pact on Migration and Asylum was first presented in September 2020, statelessness was not mentioned. ENS has engaged extensively with the European Parliament, Council, and Commission to address this, and we welcome that several of our calls to address statelessness have now been heard and incorporated. Our new briefing provides recommendations to The European Commission, Member States, EU agencies, the European Parliament and Eurostat on how to implement the new statelessness provisions and ensure that stateless people’s rights are respected in EU asylum systems. ENS recommends that: 🔸 The European Commission engages with Member States, monitors how statelessness provisions are implemented and provides resources, and develops practical tools to identify and determine statelessness. 🔹 Member States adjust their national frameworks and policies, and upskill officials, to ensure that they can identify statelessness and uphold the rights of stateless people under international law. 🔸 EU Agencies (European Union Agency for Asylum – EUAA, FRA, Frontex, EU-Lisa) mainstream their legal requirement to identify and record indications of statelessness and ensure that mechanisms are in place to uphold the specific rights of stateless persons under international law. 🔹 Eurostat ensures that data collection mechanisms are equipped to identify and record indications of statelessness 🔸 The European Parliament monitors and provides oversight of implementation of the statelessness provisions and protection of the fundamental rights of stateless persons 🔹 UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency and civil society actors incorporate recommendations on statelessness into relevant publications and advocacy interventions at regional and national levels, and ensure their teams are equipped to support stateless individuals and those with undetermined nationality to access their rights For our full set of recommendations, read our briefing: https://lnkd.in/eWeACNZ8 #Statelessness #HumanRights #EU #Asylum #Refugees #Migration #UniteToEndStatelessness