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Statelessness Index: Comparative information on law, policy, and practice relating to statelessness
in 35 European countries.
ENS and partners: country-specific identification toolkits to help frontline practitioners to identify
and address statelessness:
o Toolkit to identify and address statelessness in Bulgaria (2024)
o Toolkit to identify and address statelessness in Czechia (2024)
o Toolkit to identify and address statelessness in Romania (2024)
o Toolkit to identify and address statelessness in Türkiye (2024)
o Toolkit to identify and address statelessness in France (2022)
o Toolkit to identify and address statelessness in Germany (2025)
o Toolkit to identify and address statelessness in Scotland (2026)
EUAA, Practical Guide on Nationality (2025): Explains the concepts of nationality and statelessness
and their implications for the assessment of the application for international protection.
ENS, Ensuring the right to a nationality for children in migration in Europe (2020): Explores which
children in migration are at risk of statelessness in Europe and why, the challenges and gaps in
realising every child’s right to a nationality and provides key recommendations for action at the
national and regional level.
ENS, Implementing the new statelessness provisions in the EU Pact on Migration and Asylum (2024):
Outlines detailed recommendations for all stakeholders to fully implement the Pact and ensure that
stateless people’s rights are respected in EU asylum systems.
Council of Europe, CDCJ, Compendium of Promising Practices on Access to Nationality for Stateless
Children (2026): Covers promising practices in prevention measures to prevent statelessness, childfriendly nationality and statelessness determination procedures, birth registration and awarenessraising and training of relevant actors.
ENS, Statelessness Determination and Protection in Europe: Good practice, challenges and risks
(2025): Outlines SDPs, highlights best practice examples, and provides a critical analysis of the
remaining gaps and barriers in countries across Europe.
ENS, Birth registration and the prevention of statelessness in Europe: identifying good practices and
remaining barriers (2024): Introduces the relationship between birth registration and the prevention
of statelessness, provides an overview of norms and good practices on birth registration, and
presents a state of play analysis on birth registration law, policy, and practice in Europe using the
data from the Statelessness Index.
ENS, Protecting stateless persons from arbitrary detention (2017): Examines the risks of arbitrary
detention for stateless people and sets concrete recommendations for authorities.
UNHCR, Statelessness and the EU Pact on Migration and Asylum, Key advocacy messages (2025):
Recommendations for States to fully implement the Pact statelessness provisions.
UNHCR, Guidelines on Statelessness nr 4: Ensuring Every Child's Right to Acquire a Nationality
through Articles 1-4 of the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness (2012): Authoritative
guidelines intended to assist States and other actors to interpret and apply 1961 Convention
obligations to prevent and address childhood statelessness.
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