GENEVA – UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, commended Slovenia's commitment to eradicating the devastating plight of statelessness by acceding to the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness. The ...

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 ...

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 ...

The exact number of stateless people is not known, but UNHCR estimates that there are many millions globally – of which approximately one third are children. Statelessness may occur for a variety of ...

Said Imasi has been in Australian detention for nine years. Now, his story could have implications for the country's entire onshore detention system. Said Imasi is stateless. He does not know where he ...

This year, Amnesty International shares its 60 th anniversary with the 1961 UN Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness. Statelessness means having no nationality. A stateless person, therefore, ...

For almost a decade, Josef Ben-David was stateless. The son of a Jewish elementary school teacher in Czarist Russia, he hated his native country, where prevalent antisemitism made his life impossible.

Kiribati-born Tiibea Baure moved to Australia in 2008 as a nursing student with a plan for her extended family's future. "So when one day they have to migrate due to climate change, I'm here, ready to ...

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 ...