Litigation Toolkit on Statelessness: Volume II
October 2022
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
This toolkit is published and authored by the
European Network on Statelessness (ENS), a
civil society alliance of over 170 organisations
and individual experts in 41 countries
committed to addressing statelessness in
Europe. Everyone has the right to a nationality.
ENS believes this must be respected and that
the human rights of people who lack a
nationality – stateless people – must be
protected. ENS is dedicated to working with
stateless people in Europe to advocate for their
rights and aims to reach its goals through law
and policy development, awareness-raising,
and capacity-building.
ENS is very grateful to all who gave their time and expertise to reviewing and
commenting on drafts of this toolkit, in particular Caia Vlieks, Gábor Gyulai, Hana
Franková, Ignacio Hernández, Katarzyna Przybysławska, Melis Gebeş, Milana Kreća,
Valeria Ilareva and Valérie Klein. We also wish to acknowledge the contribution of ENS
members and other lawyers who have provided case summaries to the Statelessness
Case Law Database, and/or who support our impact litigation efforts across Europe. In
particular, we wish to acknowledge the ongoing contribution of the AIRE Centre as a key
impact litigation partner.
The publication of this toolkit was supported in part by a grant from the Open Society
Foundations. ENS would also like to acknowledge the financial support and time
contributions through our pro-bono partnerships with a number of law firms, including
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, DAC Beachcroft, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer,
Hogan Lovells and DLA Piper which is essential to the development and continuous
improvement of the Statelessness Case Law Database. The development of the
database has also been made possible through allocation of funding from various other
donors, including the Open Society Justice Initiative, Oak Foundation, Sigrid Rausing
Trust, Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung and the UN Refugee Agency, for which we are sincerely
grateful.
The Statelessness Case Law Database is a free online resource containing national and regional
case law covering Europe, as well as international jurisprudence addressing statelessness. The
database covers jurisprudence from any jurisdiction in Europe, the European Court of Human
Rights, the Court of Justice of the European Union and UN human rights treaty bodies. It is
managed by the European Network on Statelessness (ENS) with contributions and support from
ENS members and partners.
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