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04.Jun
June 04, 2014

600,000 stateless in Europe

editor:Vanessa Ellingham

"Everyone has the right to a nationality" - this is the cry of the European Network on Statelessness which reports that at least 600,000 people are currently stateless in Europe.

To be stateless is to not belong to any nationalitiy, leaving the person exposed to a range of human rights abuses as they are not protected by a state.

The network has launched a campaign to end statelessness in Europe, with a petition demanding that all states ascede to the 1954 Statelessness Convention by the end of this year.

The petition also asks that states which do not yet have a procedure for determining statelessness make a commitment to introduce one by the end of 2016.

Read stories of statelss individuals in Europe and sign the petition now.

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