Stateless-led Answer to Statelessness
Apatride Network protects, empowers, and gives voice to stateless individuals worldwide.
We advocate for their rights and support them to live with dignity and security.
/ Our Work
Stateless-led action across key
areas of impact
From advocacy to innovation, Apatride Network empowers stateless communities through solutions built by those with lived experience. Explore how we drive change across Europe and beyond.
/ About Us
About Apatride Network
Apatride Network is run by stateless people for stateless people, providing ground-level expertise on statelessness and working to advance human rights in the European Union and beyond. We raise awareness of statelessness, challenge harmful misconceptions, and empower stateless people as active participants rather than mere objects of discussion. Our work includes guest lectures at universities and other relevant venues, the publication of academic and media articles, advocacy, legal assistance, and the management of impact-driven projects that remove barriers faced by stateless people, refugees, and other disadvantaged populations.
The European Union estimates 399,283 people that are “determined stateless or of undetermined nationality.“ Most are native Europeans, being deprived of an equal right to nationality based on discrimination or bureaucratic inadequacies beyond own control. The number is a bare minimum estimate: data and the visibility of the topic remains poor due to obstruction from state actors that cause statelessness, structural power imbalances, and lack of representation of affected populations.
/ Our Track Record
Empowering the Stateless and Achieving Impact
From our humble beginning we built an organisation that: launched SAF(E), an annual international forum on statelessness; persuaded UNHCR to remove barriers to economic inclusion of stateless people at the agency; influenced European banking regulations to be accommodating to refugees and stateless people; played a leading role in Czech court cases that opened a dignified pathway out of statelessness for Europe’s largest stateless community; piloted the Global Statelessness Fund, which now provides funding for over 50 stateless-led organisations and advocates globally; launched the first international award dedicated to statelessness work; and more.
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News, Stories & Progress
Stay informed with the latest stories, achievements, and developments in our fight for the rights of stateless people across Europe and beyond.
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Voices from the Community
Hear directly from stateless individuals and allies about how Apatride Network is making a difference in their lives, in policy, and in the fight for equal rights.
