October 2024 • Recognising and tackling statelessness as an intersectional issue by raising awareness about and strengthening attention of national and regional institutions on the intersections between statelessness, the rights of minoritised groups, and women’s equality, as well as other aspects of people’s identities, such as disability, LGBTIQ* equality, age, and ethnicity; addressing statelessness through the EU Roma Inclusion Framework, the Poznan Declaration and Berlin Process, and EU enlargement and accession negotiations; and clarifying in light of international law, the legal status of ‘non-citizens’, living in EU Member States, who formerly held Soviet Union citizenship. • Engaging with the Global Alliance to End Statelessness, centring stateless people and developing a dedicated regional strategy to galvanise action by encouraging all European regional institutions, States and other relevant stakeholders to join and engage with the Global Alliance, including to pledge necessary law and policy reform as Solution Seekers; and to use this as platform to facilitate a holistic and integrated regional approach to galvanising action towards comprehensively addressing statelessness. Crucially, these multistakeholder efforts must centre stateless people with lived experience and expertise. Email us at info@statelessness.eu, visit us at www.statelessness.eu or follow us at www.twitter.com/ENStatelessness i ENS website: https://www.statelessness.eu Global Alliance website: https://statelessnessalliance.org/ iii Stateless Journeys: https://statelessjourneys.org iv ENS ‘Statelessness and the EU Pact on Migration and Asylum: Analysis and Recommendations for Implementation’: https://www.statelessness.eu/updates/publications/statelessness-and-eu-pact-migration-and-asylum-analysis-andrecommendations v ENS ‘Statelessness determination and protection in Europe: good practice, challenges, and risks’: https://www.statelessness.eu/updates/publications/statelessnessindex-briefing-statelessness-determination-andprotection-europe vi ENS ‘Why do children become stateless?’: https://www.statelessness.eu/sites/www.statelessness.eu/files/attachments/resources/ENSWhy_do_children_become_stateless.pdf vii Statelessness Index: https://index.statelessness.eu/themes/prevention-and-reduction viii ENS ‘Birth Registration’: https://www.statelessness.eu/sites/www.statelessness.eu/files/attachments/resources/ENS-Birth-Registration.pdf ix ENS and The AIRE Centre, ‘Legal briefing: Statelessness and the prohibition on discrimination against Romani communities’: https://www.statelessness.eu/updates/publications/legal-briefing-statelessness-and-prohibition-discriminationagainst-romani x ENS, ‘Celebrating progress in the protection of rainbow families, but more needs to be done’: https://www.statelessness.eu/updates/blog/celebrating-progress-protection-rainbow-families-more-needs-be-done xi ENS, ‘Birth registration and the prevention of statelessness in Europe: identifying good practices and remaining barriers’: https://www.statelessness.eu/updates/publication/birth-registration-and-prevention-statelessness-europe-identifyinggood xii ENS ‘What does it mean to be stateless?’: https://www.statelessness.eu/sites/www.statelessness.eu/files/attachments/resources/ENSWhat_does_it_mean_to_be_Stateless.pdf ii 4