Up to 15 million people are stateless, not recognised as nationals by any country. They are some of the most invisible people ...

Millions of people around the world are not citizens of any country. Their lack of nationality has serious consequences for their lives, affecting their education, societal inclusion, well-being and ...

Are you stateless and looking for help Visit the HELP site to find support and services from UNHCR. Are you stateless and looking for help? See our dedicated HELP site. The Universal Declaration of ...

Hundreds of thousands, possibly millions, of Africans do not have access to a nationality. The status of many others is in doubt or in dispute. Without an official connection to a state, people have ...

SOME PEOPLE covet passports and try to acquire new ones through naturalisation. Most are content with the citizenship they acquire at birth—at least that is guaranteed. Or so they think. In ...

Furio De Angelis is the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees representative in Canada. Imagine living in an urban slum and struggling day in, day out with poverty, marginalization and lack of ...

Five years ago, in November 2014, the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) launched a campaign to end statelessness in a decade. Halfway through the 10-year campaign, UNHCR is celebrating a major milestone: This ...

The United States is committing for the first time to defining “statelessness” and increasing protections for stateless people in the US, the Department of Homeland Security announced Wednesday. A ...

Stateless children or those at risk of statelessness face barriers in accessing education, since schools often require official documents for admission. In the heart of Karachi, nestled within one of ...

In September 1991, two German tourists in the Tyrolean Alps came across a human corpse so intact that they initially believed they had found a fellow mountaineer who had been killed in an accident — ...

Legal theorists once consigned the idea of ‘statelessness’ to the realm of fiction, because they considered it to be impossible within the state system that emerged after World War I. Every human ...