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 ...

ABIDJAN, Côte d'Ivoire, Feb 25 (UNHCR) - When Mamadou Salogo began work as a security agent at a delivery firm in Côte d'Ivoire, the only issues that his employers cared about were whether he could ...

While appearing before a federal judge in Michigan last week, Mohan Karki saw his 5-month-old daughter in person for the first time. Karki was shackled and standing several feet away, according to his ...

The risks of statelessness in Indonesia are best understood not as a single condition affecting one clearly defined group, ...

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 ...

I graduated cum laude from Harvard College in 2022, and right now, I’m working as a paralegal in Manhattan, getting ready to apply to law schools this fall. But there’s a catch. I’m “stateless,” which ...

Bhutanese deportees in South Asia are confronting worsening mental health conditions as prolonged statelessness, family ...

When was it that you decided where to be born? When did you choose whom to be born to? Tell me, in effect, what it was that you did to merit the citizenship that you hold. It’s a funny thing, this ...

For 71 of Hermelinda’s 72 years, she felt invisible. “I was ‘forbidden’. A person who is not from here, nor from there,” she explains from the porch of her tin-roofed turquoise-coloured house in the ...

Taiwan’s stateless and undocumented population, numbering in the tens of thousands, has no access to basic rights, including ...

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 ...

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. The ...