Between 1990 and 2008, Yugoslavia dissolved into seven independent countries that faced similar challenges, but also ...

The stories featured in our July Spotlight span countries, regions, and experiences. They explore the systems that create 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 ...

Every day, millions of people around the world are forced to flee their homes because of war, persecution, political instability, violence, or gross violations of human rights.

UN experts on Monday warned that the expulsion of political prisoners from Belarus and subsequent invalidation of their passports may amount to transnational repression, increased statelessness, and ...

The international legal definition of a stateless person is “a person who is not considered as a national by any State under the operation of its law”. In simple terms, this means that a stateless ...

Advocates for Non-Discrimination and Access to Knowledge (Anak) Executive Director Anne Baltazar said unequal and complicated birth ...

A Rohingya Muslim illegal immigrant puts his hand on the railing inside the Immigration Detention Centre during the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan in Kanchanaburi province, on July 10, 2013. The ...

Taiwan’s stateless and undocumented population, numbering in the tens of thousands, has no access to basic rights, including healthcare, legal residency, and in some cases, education. Taiwan is often ...

A policy paper about child statelessness in Malta notes that such children face barriers to education and marginalisation ...

I don’t have a country. I am trying to find a country to belong to. Hassan* speaks softly. We sit on the floor of the modest home he rents with his wife Noor* and children as he tells me about fleeing ...