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Apatride Network is run by stateless people for stateless people, giving voice of our views, expertise, and dreams of equal human rights in the European Union. We work to raise awareness of statelessness, clear up misconceptions therein, and empower stateless people as participants rather than mere objects of discussion. We provide lectures at universities and other relevant venues, publish academic and media articles, handle advocacy work, connect stateless individuals to legal aid and to each other, train lawyers, and take an active role in the leading initiatives on statelessness from local to global level.
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Stateless in the European Union
The European Union estimates 399,283 people that are “determined stateless or of undetermined nationality.“ Many have been born in Europe or have lived there their entire lives, being deprived of an equal right to nationality based on discrimination or bureaucratic inadequacies beyond own control. The number is a lowball figure, as stateless people are difficult to account, and the visibility of the topic remains poor due to its intricate nature and obstruction from state actors that cause statelessness.
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Today, Apatride Network participated in a call organised by the World Bank-UNHCR Joint Data Center on Forced Displacement (JDC). The call focused on knowledge exchange of experts that specialise in forced #displacement and #statelessness. JDC also used the opportunity to present its 2024-2027 strategic plan, emphasizing a need to "enhance the ability of stateholders to make timely and evidence-informed decisions that can improve the lives of the affected people."![]()
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We used the opportunity of the call to highlight the need of centering people with direct experience of statelessness and forced displacement in any data collection and the resulting dialogues. We still have a long to achieve this crucial piece of the puzzle. Nonetheless, progress is being gradually made to allow ground-level expertise of RLOs and SLOs. Only those with ground view and experience can help avoid self-facing and abstracted from reality data, and provide a much needed reality check.