The European Committee on Legal Co-operation (CDCJ) of the Council of Europe has published the Compendium of Promising Practices on Access to Nationality for Stateless Children, adopted at its 105th plenary meeting (18-20 November 2025). Prepared on the basis of responses...

The 2025 report reveals that 24 countries still deny women the right to confer their nationality to their children on an equal basis with men, perpetuating statelessness. Discriminatory nationality laws can leave children without citizenship, particularly when fathers are unknown,...