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European Network on Statelessness

Acronym: ENS

General Information

Identification Code: 846912240133-43
Website: [object Object]
Entity Form: Registered Charity
Registration Category: Non-governmental organisations, platforms and networks and similar
Registration Date: 11/4/2020
Last Update: 2/20/2024
EP Accredited Number: 0

Mission & Interests

Goals: We are a civil society alliance of organisations and individuals working to promote the right to a nationality in Europe. Our network brings together over 180 members in more than 40 countries and includes grassroots community organisations, national and international NGOs, legal advice agencies, individuals with lived experience of statelessness, and other experts. Since establishing in 2012, we have been working to ensure statelessness is given the attention it is due as a critical human rights issue. We are dedicated to raising awareness about statelessness and the right to a nationality, supporting legal and policy development, and building civil society’s capacity to act. We work collaboratively with others and our partners trust us to provide them with reliable and high-quality comparative research, information, and analysis. Together, we seek to be an effective catalyst for change that improves the lives of people affected by statelessness across Europe.
Interests Represented: Does not represent commercial interests
Interests:
  • Borders and security
  • Enlargement
  • European neighbourhood policy
  • External relations
  • Justice and fundamental rights
  • Migration and asylum
  • Regional policy
Levels of Interest:
  • sub-national
  • global
  • european
  • national

Activities

Main EU Legislative Proposals: European Migration Agenda (including Common European Asylum System: legislative and policy reform, engagement with DG-HOME, Frontex, EU Asylum Agency etc.); Child Rights Agenda (including engagement with DG-JUST Child Rights Coordinator, Child Rights Forum, Children in Migration); Enlargement and Neighbourhood Policy (including engagement with DG-NEAR Roma Policy Team and Country Officers, contribution to annual Progress Reports); Roma Policy (including as above engagement with DG-NEAR, as well as DG-JUST Roma Team, Roma Equality, Inclusion & Participation Framework); LGBTIQ Equality Strategy 2020-2025 and legislative and policy developments on the mutual recognition of parenthood in the EU; members of Fundamental Rights Agency Fundamental Rights Platform; members of EU Asylum Agency Consultative Forum; members of DG JUST Roma Team Consultative Forum; engagement with parliamentarians and work of e.g. LIBE Committee, Children's Rights & Anti-Racism & Diversity Intergroups. Our Roma Belong project has a particular focus on the Western Balkans and works in partnership with our members and other stakeholders, including the European Commission (DG NEAR & DG JUST), UNHCR, and Council of Europe towards ending (risk of) Roma statelessness in Europe. We carry out advocacy initiatives to address issues relating to civil registration, discrimination in access to citizenship, and identification and resolution of statelessness, through law and policy development, research, capacity-building, and awareness-raising. We engage with the DG NEAR Enlargement Package process and monitoring and implementation of the EU Strategic Framework for Roma Equality, Inclusion & Participation, including as members of the DG JUST Roma Team consultative forum. Our Stateless Journeys project focuses on the nexus between forced migration and statelessness, aiming to build the capacity of refugee response actors in Europe to identify and respond to statelessness and improve routes to protection for stateless refugees. We currently do this through training, engagement with EU agencies (EU Asylum Agency, FRA, FRONTEX) and EMN (Statelessness Platform and EMN-REG), influencing the EU asylum and migration Pact negotiations at Commission, Parliament, and Council levels, and awareness-raising activities. For example, we are members of the EUAA Consultative Forum and regularly contribute expertise on statelessness to its outputs. Our #StatelessJourneys (https://statelessjourneys.org) campaign launched in 2022 with activities focussing on a regional level as well as in specific target countries. The campaign microsite includes tools designed to support asylum practitioners to better identify and protect stateless persons. Another priority area is child rights and the prevention of childhood statelessness in Europe. We are active members of civil society forums including the Child Rights Action Group and Initiative for Children in Migration. We work with the EU Child Rights Coordinator and contributed to the EU Child Rights Strategy and annual Child Rights Forum. We also work with the European’s Parliament’s Intergroup on Children’s Rights and engage with MEPs on issues relating to child rights.
Communication Activities: Our Statelessness Index is a comparative tool that assesses European countries’ law, policy and practice on the protection of stateless people and the prevention and reduction of statelessness, against international norms and good practice. It is a tool created for civil society, government, researchers, regional institutions, people affected by statelessness, the media and other interested individuals: https://index.statelessness.eu/ The Index contains information on 30 European countries and two more will be added in early 2024. We are currently translating country profiles to improve accessibility, and regularly publish news updates and other tools drawing on the Index data, including thematic briefings (to date on birth registration - https://www.statelessness.eu/updates/publication/birth-registration-and-prevention-statelessness-europe-identifying-good, statelessness determination procedures - https://www.statelessness.eu/updates/publications/statelessnessindex-briefing-statelessness-determination-and-protection-europe, and deprivation of nationality - https://www.statelessness.eu/updates/publications/statelessnessindex-thematic-briefing-deprivation-nationality-and-prevention). Our Statelessness Caselaw Database (https://caselaw.statelessness.eu) is an online resource containing national and regional case law covering Europe, as well as international jurisprudence addressing statelessness. The database covers jurisprudence from different jurisdictions in Europe, the European Court of Human Rights, the Court of Justice of the European Union, and UN human rights treaty bodies. During the development of the EU Child Rights Strategy in 2020-21, ENS published a position paper (https://www.statelessness.eu/updates/publications/eu-strategy-rights-child-2021-24-ens-position-paper) and contributed to a joint paper endorsed by 27 organisations (https://reliefweb.int/report/world/joint-position-paper-comprehensive-child-rights-strategy). Together with Missing Children Europe, we presented at the 13th European Forum on the Rights of the Child on behalf of the Initiative for Children in Migration, on the need for the Child Rights Strategy to build inclusive societies for children in migration, including stateless children. Also as part of the Initiative on Children in Migration, together with Child Circle and PICUM, we published a policy briefing in April 2020 on ensuring the right to a nationality for children in migration in Europe (https://www.statelessness.eu/updates/publication/no-child-should-be-stateless-ensuring-right-nationality-children-migration) which is available in multiple languages. In January 2021, ENS published a detailed analysis of the EU Pact on Asylum & Migration proposals (https://www.statelessness.eu/sites/default/files/2021-01/ENS-Statelessness_and_the_EU_Pact_on_Asylum_and_Migration-Jan_2021_1.pdf). A briefing with updated analysis and recommendations was published in June 2023 (https://www.statelessness.eu/updates/publications/statelessness-and-eu-pact-migration-and-asylum-updated-analysis-and). Further information and resources on our work to address statelessness in Europe’s refugee response are available on our dedicated microsite knowledge hub: www.statelessjourneys.org. All ENS publications, blogs, briefings, reports, webinars, and other resources are available and searchable on our website at: https://www.statelessness.eu/updates
Inter-institutional or Unofficial Groupings: Anti-racism and diversity,Children's rights

Head Office

Address: 28 Stainforth RoadWalthamstow
Post Code: E17 9RD
City: London
Country: UNITED KINGDOM
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EU Office

Address: 28 Stainforth RoadWalthamstow
Post Code: E17 9RD
City: London
Country: UNITED KINGDOM
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Financial Data

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Membership Information

Members10 Percent: 0
Members25 Percent: 4
Members50 Percent: 0
Members75 Percent: 0
Members: 4
Members F T E: 1

Structure

Structure Type: Structure
Is Member Of: https://www.statelessness.eu/about-us/members
Organisation Members: We are members of: - DG JUST Roma Team Consultative Forum - Council of Europe Conference of INGOs