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 ...

While statelessness affects millions of people around the world, Australia also has stateless people.The United Nations ...

Belonging nowhere is a reality for millions of people around the world: it's known as statelessness. Described by some as an ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 — ...