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 ...
The complexity of 'statelessness' is explored through four shorts in this anthology film from the Drung Tibetan Filmmakers’ Collective that offers a philosophical and spiritual outlook on the global ...
The 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness are the key international conventions addressing statelessness. Both are ...
Are you stateless and looking for help Visit the HELP site to find support and services from UNHCR. Are you stateless and looking for help? See our dedicated HELP site. The Universal Declaration of ...
As many as 15 million people are considered stateless worldwide today, with millions more at risk for statelessness. This means they are “not considered as nationals by any State under the operation ...
Ten million people worldwide have no nationality, leaving them in a devastating legal limbo, the UN refugee agency said Tuesday, launching a campaign to eradicate statelessness within ten years.
Discriminatory nationality laws and conflicts like the Syrian civil war mean that one child is born every 10 minutes without an official nationality, according to a new report by the United Nations ...
Nigeria-born British writer Ben Okri once wrote, “The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love, and to be greater than our suffering.” For ...
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) announced the foundation of the New Global Alliance to End Statelessness in a press release on Tuesday. The project marks the collaborative ...
Tenzin (Tenzin Choegyal)and Pima (Le Phuang Linh) walk home in "Where the River Ends" directed by Tsering Tashi Gyalthang Once on board, he explains that the Mekong River flows from Tibet to Vietnam, ...
Tibetan directors, who all live outside Tibet, deliver a quartet of films that explore the pain of separation and migration The wrench of exile is the theme of this quartet of short films from Tibetan ...