Can we end statelessness in a decade?

Updated: Tue, 3 May 2016

Film star Cate Blanchett backs drive to end plight of 10 mln stateless

Not recognised by any country, stateless people are often deprived of basic rights like education and healthcare

Shona near end of statelessness as Kenya issues birth certificates
Kenya's move to end the plight of the Shona comes amid a global campaign to eradicate statelessness thought to affect an estimated 10 million people worldwide By Maina Waruru | Tue, 8 Oct 2019
What's in a name? India's citizenship drive hits women hardest
As Assam leaves millions off a register of citizens, women are struggling to get documents proving their right to register as Indian By Anuradha Nagaraj | Sat, 5 Oct 2019
interview I found a country, but lost my brother - stateless activist
'For most people a passport is a travel document, but for me it means everything. It means I exist. It's finally a sign I belong somewhere.' By Emma Batha | Sun, 6 Oct 2019
factbox Where are the world's stateless people?
An estimated 10 to 15 million people are not recognised as nationals by any country By Emma Batha | Sun, 6 Oct 2019
interview Ending statelessness is easy, says Kyrgyz winner of top U.N. prize
An estimated 10 to 15 million people are not recognised as nationals by any country, often depriving them of basic rights most of the world takes for granted By Umberto Bacchi | Wed, 2 Oct 2019
UN refugee agency takes up case of potential stateless in India
Nearly 2 million people were left off a list of citizens released by Indian authorities By Reuters | Wed, 2 Oct 2019
Iran passes law allowing women to pass citizenship to children
Human rights experts have said the measure could help thousands of children living in legal limbo By Reuters | Wed, 2 Oct 2019
Kyrgyzstan makes history as it ends plight of last 'legal ghosts'
The last 50 known stateless people, including 15 children, were issued with birth certificates and passports in Bishkek By Emma Batha | Thu, 4 Jul 2019
insight Wrongful detentions in the search for illegals in India's Assam
U.N. experts warned that the citizenship drive in Assam risked rendering millions stateless or in prolonged detention, and that the process 'could fuel religious discrimination' By Reuters | Fri, 26 Jul 2019
Countries urged not to strip terror suspects of citizenship
Experts say countries should recognise that women married to IS fighters, and their children, may have been victimized By Emma Batha | Fri, 28 Jun 2019
Stateless woman tells how she couldn't visit dying dad
People end up stateless for a host of complex historical, social and legal reasons - including migration, flawed citizenship laws and ethnic discrimination By Emma Batha | Fri, 28 Jun 2019
Nepalese mum says unfair citizenship laws squander futures
Twenty-five countries - including Nepal, Oman, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Sudan - do not let women hand their nationality to their children, placing them at risk of becoming stateless By Emma Batha | Thu, 27 Jun 2019
interview Myanmar must give Rohingya 'pathway to citizenship' - investigator
Buddhist-majority Myanmar does not recognise the Muslim Rohingya as citizens despite a long history in the country By Emma Batha | Wed, 26 Jun 2019
Iran plans to scrap ban on women passing nationality to children
Such laws can fuel statelessness, potentially depriving people of basic rights such as education, health care, housing and employment By Emma Batha | Wed, 26 Jun 2019
No room on water, no home on land for Cambodia's ethnic Vietnamese
More than 1,000 ethnic Vietnamese families who live on the water will be relocated to land in the coming months, provincial authorities have said By Rina Chandran | Thu, 27 Jun 2019
Thousands of children born to Venezuelan migrants left stateless
Nearly 1.3 million Venezuelans have settled in neighboring Colombia, fleeing a political and economic crisis in their homeland By Anastasia Moloney | Thu, 23 May 2019
A new high: Indigenous Thai farmers swap opium for coffee, land
'I got rid of my opium addiction, got citizenship, got land and work, and ensured that my children had better lives than me' By Rina Chandran | Wed, 15 May 2019
Bulgaria urged to stop locking up stateless people
More than 130 stateless people have been detained in Bulgaria in last decade but real number is probably higher as stateless people are often wrongly ascribed nationality By Emma Batha | Mon, 18 Feb 2019
Myanmar refugees in Thai camps face uncertain future
"It is not safe for us to go back, and we do not know what is to become of us here." By Rina Chandran | Mon, 14 Jan 2019
No name, no rights: the long road to Thai citizenship
"At times, I thought I would die before we got citizenship. Even now, I am afraid it can be taken from me" By Rina Chandran | Wed, 3 Oct 2018
Thousands of stateless in the Philippines get nationality
Around 40 percent of the world's estimated 10 million stateless people live in southeast Asia By Beh Lih Yi | Mon, 14 Nov 2016
UK urged to stop locking up stateless "ghost people"
Experts say Britain subjects stateless people to "prolonged and pointless detention" as it tries to remove them even though no country will accept them By Emma Batha | Thu, 10 Nov 2016
Hong Kong stateless kids lost in translation as asylum claims soar
There are over 11,000 asylum seekers in the Asian financial hub, some still uncertain about their fate after waiting for more than 15 years By Reuters | Sun, 19 Jun 2016
A generation of Syrian children who don't count
Thousands of potentially stateless children are one way wars in Syria and Iraq are reshaping Middle East and its people By Reuters | Tue, 3 May 2016