News & Updates

Liebe Community, hat jemand Lust, über Staatenlosigkeit in einer Folge von TRU Doku (funk/ZDF) zu sprechen? Wir haben eine Anfrage von der Redaktion gekriegt - gerne verbinden wir euch mit der Journalistin, die uns geschrieben hat. In dem Format sprechen Betroffene aus ihrer eigenen Perspektive und es soll darum gehen, mehr Aufmerksamkeit für Staatenlosigkeit zu kreieren. Die Doku wird auf Deutsch sein, sie suchen also nach einer deutschsprachigen Person. Es gibt kein spezielles Medientraining, die Inhalte werden aber zusammen bestimmt. Bei Fragen und Interesse könnt ihr mir gerne schreiben via margarida@statefree.world

Hey everyone ! Someone just shared with me this training aimed to young(ish) people who are interested in politics or getting into politics, and are looking for guidance and knowledge on what this looks like. It looks quite broad though so I imagine would be relevant for campaigners as well! I believe it’s in German, and it’s aimed at people based/working in Germany, Austria or Switzerland. The deadline to apply is 24 April !Love PoliticsHope it might be useful to some of you! <3

Hello everyone!I wanted to share an opportunity here for anyone thinking about doing postgraduate study – for a 3-month online course in refugee studies offered by the University of Oxford, UK. It is aimed at anyone with lived experience of displacement who is thinking about continuing studies in this area. https://www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/news/rsc-pathways-applications-for-2023-cohort-are-now-openThe deadline to apply is at 5 pm GMT (6 pm CET) on Monday 27th March! And if you have any questions about the course you can email study@refugeeledresearch.org.Hope this might be interesting for some of you! :)

Hello everyone! I’m a new member in this space and very happy to be here :)I work at the European Network on Statelessness (ENS), and wanted to share some information on a conference we are organising in Madrid, Spain, in June. We are currently looking for proposals for panel events for this conference, and would be particularly keen to hear from individuals / groups / organisations impacted by statelessness on any panel discussions that they would like to organise. More info here: https://www.statelessness.eu/updates/event/addressing-statelessness-europe-closing-protection-gaps-and-realising-everyones-right?mc_cid=21fe36d2eb&mc_eid=339b3e75ac I’ll share more information when registration for attendance is open :) And please

Liebe Community 🌟das deutsche Staatsangehörigkeitsgesetz soll sich ändern. Statefree hat die Möglichkeit, eine Stellungnahme dazu zu veröffentlichen, welche vom Gesetzesgeber gelesen und berücksichtigt wird. Diese Chance wollen wir gemeinsam mit euch nutzen! Bist du von Staatenlosigkeit betroffen und hast Erfahrung mit dem Einbürgerungsprozess in Deutschland? Wir laden dich ein, deine Expertise in unserem Community Lab zu teilen und gemeinsam zu besprechen, wie der Zugang zur Einbürgerung für staatenlose Menschen fairer gestaltet werden kann.Diese Fragen möchten wir gemeinsam besprechen:Was soll sich am deutschen Staatsangehörigkeitsgesetz verändern? Was bedeutet das für staatenlose Menschen in Deutschland?  Was wird im Gesetz noch nicht ausreichend berücksichtigt?Der Workshop findet am Samstag, dem 14. Januar von 10:00-12:00 Uhr statt. 

Live Workshop: Questioning the Meaning of Nationality Dear Community, On Monday, December 5th (17:00-19:00) Statefree will host a workshop at Refuge Worldwide in Berlin (Weserstr. 166). Together we will discuss statelessness and the meaning of nationality and identity from a stateless perspective. We will dive deeper into the broader impacts of statelessness and some of the legal, social and emotional challenges that come with it.Read more and sign up here.Hope to see you there ✨ *****Liebe Community,am Montag, den 5. Dezember (17:00-19:00) wird Statefree einen Workshop bei

Hello Dear Community, I am new here and I have two amazing women to thank for connecting me to this amazing community of which I am so grateful and humble to be part of. I wanna share about my plight and I'll make it as short as possible:  I go by the name Prince Lenny Penaloza, I was stolen as a baby and trafficked from the US by a gang of women traffickersI spent and I spent some years of my childhood growing with one of the women that abducted me and the same woman I thought was my mom as a child, although she and none of the other women in her gang of traffickers looked anywhere like me because 'am black and they're not..I've been living in Germany ever since 1990 where I was abandoned and left for dead. Till this day, I still live as an Unidentified Human without any ID and as a Stateless human. Exactly eight years ago (2014) when I tried saying a little about my situation on Facebook after years of living in fear and depression , I got death

Good morning everyone! ☀️ check out www.ddw.nl​​​​In October I will be participating in the DDW, an important design event. As a social designer I will be participating by conducting several interviews on critical social issues such as statelessness. I would like to invite you to participate by giving a 10 minute interview, as it will be a great opportunity to get in touch with other NGOs and investors and in general to raise awareness for starelessness. You can also attend various other online exhibitions from the event.Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions at all.I will gladly tailor any interviews to your liking Have a great day!Alex

  Are you looking for more than just another fundraising job? Would you like the opportunity to expand donor understanding of possibly the biggest human rights issue they’ve never heard of? To directly support stateless activists and grassroots groups to strengthen their fundraising and development skills? To help the only global human rights NGO working on the right to nationality, to strengthen and diversify its funding? To support the work of a growing global movement on statelessness? If you are looking for a position that will challenge, stretch and inspire in equal measure, and if you feel you have the requisite attitude, skills and experience to offer, this may be the perfect job for you! LEARN MORE & HOW TO APPLY:

Last week, the Court of Appeal, in a 2-1 decision, overturned High Court judgement allowing women to confer #citizenship on their overseas-born children. Learn more about the situation & what you can do to help: https://files.institutesi.org/Decision_in_Family_Frontiers_Case.pdf  

⚡️ Migration and Technology Monitor launches a a paid #fellowship⚡️ offering an exciting opportunity for people with lived experience of #migration to meaningfully contribute to research, storytelling, policy & advocacy conversations on border and migration technologies! LEARN MORE & APPLY https://lnkd.in/ezqzGFYU  

The Global Statelessness Movement is a global community of stateless persons, activists, and allied organisations dedicated to the eradication of statelessness, equal nationality rights, and the human rights of stateless persons. We envision a world in which universal human rights - including the right to a nationality - are respected and upheld for all human beings. We are determined to elevate and amplify the voices of stateless persons at the international, regional, and national levels to influence policy makers, educate the community at large, and inspire global change.We have formed a small group of 23 people comprised of stateless activists and NGOs, to drive forward the movement and to prepare for the formal launch later this year. We look forward to welcoming stateless persons and allied organisations around the world to join our movement.The Movements Manifest