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 ...

During a visit to one of the Child-Friendly Spaces inside a Rohingya camp in Cox's Bazar, I met a group of children who made me forget for a few moments the situation that brought them to the camp – ...

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 ...

Stateless persons are unable to prove citizenship to any country. Many are forcibly displaced, and all are vulnerable, particularly in conflict zones and other fragile contexts. Mounting evidence ...

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 ...

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 ...

The first children, out of some 10,000 children whose citizenship applications have so far been accepted, received their Iranian identity card, known as a ‘Shenasnameh’, last month. According to the ...

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 ...

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 — ...

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 ...