Action 9 of the Global Action Plan calls on States to accede to the UN Statelessness Conventions. Statelessness remains a significant global issue even though two international treaties exist to prevent and reduce the phenomenon and protect stateless persons. The […]
Action 3 of the Global Action Plan calls on States to remove gender discrimination from nationality laws. The attainment of gender equality in nationality laws worldwide would constitute a major step forward in preventing statelessness. International human rights law provides […]
UNHCR is publishing a series of Good Practices Papers to help States, with the support of other stakeholders, achieve the goals of its Campaign to End Statelessness within 10 Years. Each Good Practices Paper corresponds to one of the 10 […]
Reports on the launch of the 10 year campaign to end statelessness, and steps already taken, including the December 2014 adoption by the Latin American and Caribbean States of the Brazil Declaration and Plan of Action, in which they committed […]
Across the world today more than ten million people are told they don’t belong ANYWHERE.They are called ‘stateless’. They are denied a nationality. And with it, they are denied their basic rights. Statelessness can mean a life without education, without […]