A comprehensive overview of statelessness and its devastating impact.

A Special Report: Ending Statelessness Within 10 years | UNHCR

Over three millionstateless people live in just 10 countries.

Families endure generations of statelessness despite having deep-rooted and longstanding ties to their communities and countries. Some have become stateless due to administrative obstacles; they simply fall through the cracks of a system that ignores or has forgotten them. More than two decades after the disintegration of the Soviet Union, over 600,000 people remain stateless. Some 300,000 Urdu-speaking Biharis were denied citizenship by the government of Bangladesh when the country gained its independence in 1971. A 2013 Constitutional Court ruling in the Dominican Republic led to tens of thousands of Dominicans, the vast majority of Haitian descent, being deprived of their nationality, and of the rights that  flowed from it.
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“It is wholly within the power of every concerned government to resolve statelessness.We have the opportunity, as never before to tackle thein justice. Now is the time to act.”  – ANTÓNIO GUTERRES – UN Secretary-Genera

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A Special Report: Ending Statelessness Within 10 years

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