We’re marking our 10th anniversary this year! 🥳
It’s hard to capture the last ten years in a Twitter thread, but here goes nothing... Our journey in 15 tweets. 👇🧵
It’s 10 years since a group of 6 orgs came together to establish ENS.
A decade later we now have 170+ members in 41 countries.
We also have hundreds of partners & thousands of supporters who are all part of our journey seeking to end #statelessness statelessness.eu/about/members
In 2013 we published our first publication – a guide on statelessness determination procedures providing practical support to states wanting to do more to address the issue. Fast-forward to 2022, our website now includes over 150 publications & 450+ blogs statelessness.eu/updates
In Nov 2012 we held our kick-off event in Budapest, bringing together 30 members from 28 countries. Since then, we have run over 120 regional & national & online events to provide training, raise awareness & engage with stakeholders on tackling #statelessness in Europe.
In 2015 we launched our detention toolkit accompanied by an exhibition “Nowhere people” by @grconstantine. Focusing on unlawful detention of stateless people over the next 3 years, we did #LockedinLimbo research in 6 countries statelessness.eu/issues/prevent…
In July 2016, 35 youth ambassadors from across Europe joined us in Brussels for training & planning on how to eradicate childhood statelessness. Later in November they handed over the #StatelessKids petition with over 22,000 signatures to the @coe and @Europarl_EN
We launched our #StatelessnessINDEX in 2018. The Index provides extensive country by country analysis of law, policy and practice also benchmarking this against international norms and good practice. The Index now covers 30 countries and over 40,000 users. index.statelessness.eu
Set up in 2016 w/ @ERRCtweets & @institute_si - #RomaBelong project was designed to tackle Roma statelessness in W Balkans & Ukraine. Many Roma are still left struggling to obtain identification docs, access healthcare/education or birth registration statelessness.eu/issues/statele…
Launched in 2019 our 5-year strategic plan set out the next stage of our development. We’ve been working to deliver the 5 main objectives w/ generous support from @oakfnd @SRausingTrust @TheEPIM @rosaluxgeneva @comicrelief @phf_uk @OSFJustice & others statelessness.eu/about
A big thanks to all of current and previous board & advisory committee members who have provided expert advice, strategic leadership and guidance to help us build an effective organisation.
Here's the current advisory from our last meeting in Brussels statelessness.eu/about/board-of…
As one of our main priorities we're building long-term relationships with stateless communities. Nobody understands the impact of living without a nationality better than stateless people. They also know what solutions are required to address it! statelessness.eu/issues/working…
While we aim to work constructively with governments, we also recognise that part of the fight to end statelessness has to happen through the courts. Our new Case Law Database is there to help lawyers litigate for the rights of stateless people. caselaw.statelessness.eu
This year we’ve launched our new #StatelessJourneys campaign. Alongside a growing coalition of over 75 organisations we're calling on European governments and EU to provide the full rights and support owed to stateless refugees. statelessjourneys.org
As part of our Ukraine response we worked with our members @R2Protection & @desyate_kvitnya to uncover issues faced by stateless people fleeing the war. We’ve done 15 country briefings with information for stateless people & refugee response actors.
statelessness.eu/statelessness-…
In response to #COVID19 pandemic we worked with @LJMU researchers & members to understand how governments’ responses are affecting stateless people. We’ve also worked with communities to call on states to guarantee the right to health for all statelessness.eu/updates/public…
Finally, a big thank you to all our members, partners and supporters for a wonderful, inspiring and productive ten years. We couldn’t have done it without all of you!😀

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Nov 8, 2022
The second panel of our #StatelessJourneys event highlighted the perspectives of stateless changemakers and community activists. We are incredibly grateful for their honest accounts of the issue and insights on how to instigate positive change at the grassroots. Image
.@LynnAlKhatib2 co-facilitated the discussion, focusing on how do we get to a place where policy makers talk and listen to stateless people and communities affected by statelessness.
.@RoSirazulIslam is Youth Director of @BritishRohingya and one of the changemakers involved in our #StatelessJourneys campaign. Sirazul shared his experience on how to bridge the gap between decision-makers and people affected by #statelessness in his community.
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Nov 8, 2022
We’re hugely grateful to all of our wonderful speakers from last week’s #StatelessJourneys campaign launch. Thank you for supporting this work and for demonstrating your commitment to fix protection gaps for #stateless refugees in Europe.

Hear from each of them below. 🧵
The first panel brough together high-level representatives and officials from European institutions to discuss why Europe must act now to better protect stateless refugees.
.@GillianTriggs Assistant High Commissioner @Refugees highlighted the need to maintain strong focus on #statelessness and build new partnerships in the next phase of the fight to eradicate #statelessness. Thanks Gillian for the ongoing strong collaboration.
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Oct 27, 2022
Big smiles on the ENS assembly line getting ready for the launch of our #StatelessJourneys campaign here in Brussels today! 😃

Looking forward to seeing many of you soon to talk about how we can ensure proper protection for stateless refugees! Image
Folks are starting to arrive! Possibly most excited to welcome members of our stateless change-makers network!

These awesome activists are here so EU decision makers can hear their perspectives on what needs to change for stateless people to thrive in Europe! ImageImageImageImage
And we’re also delighted to welcome @GillianTriggs Assistant Secretary General & Assistant High Commissioner for Protection at the UN refugee agency - here kindly giving us an interview about protecting stateless refugees making #StatelessJourneys into Europe Image
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Mar 24, 2022
Here's a situation update from the ground on issues facing #stateless people trapped by the conflict in Ukraine.
statelessness.eu/updates/blog/a…

🧵[THREAD] Main concerns raised by our Ukrainian member @R2Protection [1/9]
Number of #stateless people prior to conflict was relatively high.
Low estimate puts it at 35,000, but likely much higher including those at risk of statelessness due to lack of documents: eg. 40-80,000 Roma, large % of children born in Crimea, Donetsk and Luhansk. [2/9]
Most stateless people assisted by @R2protection have not been displaced so far. Only 24 (17%) of the 138 people R2P has been able to reach so far have fled in search of safer settlements. Only 6 of those have crossed the Ukrainian border and flee to EU countries. [3/9]
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