STOP 2: LONDON, ENGLAND
Organisations and Individuals I Met With / Activities Engaged In:
(a) Meeting: European Network on Statelessness
Chris Nash, Director
Patricia Cabral, Legal Policy Coordinator
Alexia Tizzano, Legal Officer
The European Network on Statelessness (ENS) is a leading civil society alliance of organisations
and individuals working to promote the right to nationality in Europe. ENS was established in
2012 and brings together over 180 members in more than 40 countries and includes grassroots
community organisations, national and international NGOs, legal advice agencies, think tanks,
individuals with lived experience of statelessness, and other experts.
The work of ENS is implemented across four core themes, including children’s rights. Almost 40 of
ENS’s members work directly on children’s nationality rights and ENS has led a number of key
projects addressing childhood statelessness. This includes the #StatelessKids campaign as well as
projects focus on promoting universal birth registration in Europe, addressing childhood
statelessness in migration contexts and understanding and addressing childhood statelessness in
the UK.xciv
Key ENS publications and resources of note:
Invisible Kids: Childhood Statelessness in the UK (July 2021)
No Child Should Be Stateless: Ensuring the Right to a Nationality for Children in Migration in
Europe (April 2020)
Statelessness Index: A comprehensive tool assessing 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.
(b) Meeting: Cynthia Orchard, Legal Consultant and former legal advisor for stateless
people, children, migrants and refugees
Key publications and resources by Cynthia Orchard of note:
Invisible Kids: Childhood Statelessness in the UK (July 2021)
Palestinians and the Search for Protection as Refugees and Stateless Persons (2022)
BrieFing: The New Home OfFice Policy on Statelessness (2019)
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