{"id":12934,"date":"2017-04-11T08:49:48","date_gmt":"2017-04-11T08:49:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=12934"},"modified":"2022-02-02T08:45:05","modified_gmt":"2022-02-02T08:45:05","slug":"unhcr-campaign-to-end-statelessness-april-2017-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/unhcr-campaign-to-end-statelessness-april-2017-update\/","title":{"rendered":"UNHCR Campaign to End Statelessness Update April 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

This Update tracks a number of exciting developments related to statelessness that have taken place globally in the last 3 months, demonstrating increased international awareness and determination to address the issue. These include landmark decisions in Kenya and in Madagascar<\/strong>. In Kenya, the Government officially recognized the Makonde<\/strong>, a long-standing stateless group, as the 43rd official tribe in Kenya, and over 1000 members of the Makonde have now received citizenship documentation in a process that is ongoing. Madagascar amended its nationality law to allow women to pass nationality to their children on an equal basis as men <\/strong>. During the same period, two governments took important steps to accede to the UN Statelessness Conventions: Luxembourg\u2019s Parliament adopted a law to accede to the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness, and the Haitian Parliament voted to accede to both Statelessness Conventions.<\/p>\n

In February, delegations from 27 diplomatic missions to the United Nations came together for the fifth meeting of the group of Friends of the #IBelong Campaign to End Statelessness<\/strong> and discussed how to make strategic use of multilateral initiatives like the Sustainable Development Goals and the Global Refugee Compact to help end statelessness. Progress continued against a number of Actions of the Global Action Plan to End Statelessness, notably including developments in the Americas with respect to Action 6<\/strong>, which relates to granting status to stateless persons and facilitating their naturalization. UNHCR also launched a new Good Practices Paper on Action 2 <\/a>(Ensuring that no child is born stateless) to help States and other stakeholders collaborate to ensure that safeguards are in place to prevent childhood statelessness.<\/p>\n

The UNHCR operation in Thailand reconnected with Artee , a former stateless individual, to discuss the impact that obtaining Thai nationality has had on her. When UNHCR met her in 2015, Artee Ma-Yer was a stateless student in northern Thailand. She shared her dreams and challenges in a workshop with stateless youth in Chiang Rai province and was featured in a UNHCR report titled, \u201cI Am Here, I Belong: The Urgent Need to End Childhood Statelessness.\u201d Two years later, Artee has acquired Thai nationality with the help of UNHCR\u2019s partner, the Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA)<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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