Below is a list of our ongoing initiatives, along with their brief descriptions. These initiatives address key gaps related to statelessness, covering areas such as financial inclusion, employment, prevention of childhood statelessness, and knowledge-building.
We respond to the widespread gaps in knowledge about statelessness, the lack of efforts to address the overlooked yet critical issue, and the need for real difference in the lives of affected people.
An archaic and harmful notion lives on to this day: that only the state actors have agency. On the contrary, states continue to struggle with the problems that they cause and perpetuate, lacking agency to fulfill their own obligations to provide security, protection of fundamental values, and inviolability of state membership. Statelessness is a prime example of that shortcoming. This is where we have a role, as people who have learned from the failure of states and are committed to building practical, principle-based solutions.
Apatride Network is a regional and global leader in providing guest lectures on statelessness to universities, UN agencies, NGOs, governments, and other relevant parties. We also publish academic and media articles, train legal professionals, and participate in and organise international conferences on statelessness. Should you like a guest lecture at your university or organisation, you are can contact us: contact@apatride.eu
We connect stateless people to legal assistance in the EU. In turn, we help that legal assistance to better understand the cases, helping gather relevant legal details and documents. If you are stateless in the EU and need assistance, do not hesitate to contact us: contact@apatride.eu
Our legal assistance has led to some success, including the Czech Supreme Administrative Court’s ruling confirming Europe’s largest stateless community as stateless.
In our ongoing financial inclusion project, we advocate for banks and financial institutions in the EU to align their approaches to the financial inclusion of forcibly displaced and stateless people. To this end, we have partnered with a small but respected consortium of NGOs, international law firms, and UNHCR, driving the advocacy toward practical financial inclusion reforms.
Apatride Network piloted the initial stage of the Global Statelessness Fund (GSF). The groundbreaking fund allows campaigners and stateless-led organisations all over the world to access funding using a fiscal host Open Collective. We continue to help improve the initiative’s design, reach, accessibility, and functionality to make funding more relevant and responsive to needs on the ground.
We conduct outreach and build community among stateless people and communities. One of the greatest challenges in this field is that stateless people are often unaware of their own statelessness and disconnected from one another. We invest in creating spaces for recognition, connection, and collective action, led and built from the ground up.
Half a million Belarusians in political exile now face the risk of statelessness due to recent policies of the Belarusian government. Some are already becoming undocumented and de facto stateless in the EU, with children particularly at risk.
We partnered with leading Belarusian NGOs on Childoc, a large-scale legal assistance and advocacy project that aims to help EU Member States align their approaches to the protection of Belarusian political exiles and their children.
Some of our initiatives have established their own partnerships comprising multiple partner organisations. Their dedicated pages and websites provide further information about their objectives, activities, partners, achievements, and opportunities for engagement. To learn more, click the relevant initiative logo below or select the initiative from the dropdown menu above.
SAF(E) is the only recurring international forum on statelessness, held in different countries in Europe every year. The forum is stateless-led and involves leading NGOs, international organisatons, academics, and experts with lived experience of statelessness. The initiative amplifies the voices of affected people, facilitates stakeholder networking, and prompts concrete action to address statelessness.
Blockchain for Human Rights is an advocacy consortium started by Apatride Network, Save My Identity, The Rohingya Project, and Coalicion por Venezuela. It advocates for responsible use of blockchain and digitalisation technology in addressing human rights issues, particularly in regards to legal identification.
Statelessness Impact Award (SIA) is the world’s first and only international award dedicated to recognising statelessness work. The first edition of the award was held in Malta, on 23rd of March, 2026. The first SIA recipient is Ghada Alrayan, who secured the recognition of Syrian-Palestianians as de jure stateless in Switzerland.
A standalone website is currently being made for SIA.
Apatride Network is involved in various other projects in such areas as media engagement, freedom of movement advocacy, migration-by-investment improvement, legal assistance capacity building, and pro bono mobilisation. Should you have any inquiries on any of our projects, feel free to contact us.