European statelessness conference pushes for concrete action and commitments to resolve statelessness in Europe
Madrid – In the lead up to this year’s Global Refugee Forum in December, and in the penultimate year of the decade-long #IBelong Campaign to end statelessness, representatives from governments, civil society, NGOs, stateless activists, refugee communities,...
UNHCR’s Grandi urges action to resolve plight of stateless ‘living in the shadows’
Stronger efforts are needed to resolve the plight of those who lack a nationality, urged UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, today on the 8th anniversary of UNHCR’s global #IBelong Campaign to End Statelessness. Affecting at least 4.3 million people,...
UNHCR welcomes European commitments at regional statelessness consultation
MADRID – UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, hosted a two-day regional consultation in Madrid on the identification of stateless people and statelessness determination procedures on 20 and 21 October. The consultations brought together 31 European countries to help work...
UNHCR and SOAS launch statelessness exhibition in Sweden
UNHCR and SOAS are jointly launching the photo exhibition We Belong: Global Faces of Statelessness on 24 October at Folkuniversitetet in Stockholm.
Two events on statelessness organized in Iceland
Together with the Icelandic Directorate of Immigration, UNHCR organized an open seminar, highlighting Iceland’s accession to the Statelessness Conventions and the progress of the #IBelong-campaign, as well as a technical workshop for legal practitioners.
UNHCR’s observations to proposed amendments to the Finnish Citizenship Act
UNHCR’s Representation for the Nordic and Baltic Countries has submitted its observations on the proposed amendments to the Finnish Citizenship Act. UNHCR supports the law proposal and welcomes that several of the observations submitted by UNHCR to the preliminary...
UNHCR observations to report on requirements for Swedish citizenship
UNHCR’s Representation for the Nordic and Baltic Countries has submitted its observations on the “Final report of the inquiry on language and social studies requirements for Swedish citizenship and other citizenship issues” UNHCR welcomes that the starting point in...
UNHCR urges governments to accelerate progress and resolve plight of world’s stateless
More action is needed to resolve the plight of millions around the world who are still without citizenship, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, urged today as it marked seven years since the launch of its #IBelong Campaign to End Statelessness. “Significant progress has...
UNHCR and Council of Europe discuss statelessness, urge States to uphold the right to a nationality in Europe
Strengthening efforts to end statelessness in Europe was the key theme of the events organized on 23-24 September in Strasbourg, France.