United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, UNHCR, Portuguese Antonio Manuel de Oliveira Guterres, center, arrives to the press conference about the launch of UNHCR’s global Statelessness campaign ...

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.

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 ...

The international legal definition of a stateless person is “a person who is not considered as a national by any State under the operation of its law”. In simple terms, this means that a stateless ...

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 ...

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 ...

Up to 15 million people worldwide are stateless, including an estimated half a million in Europe. To learn more, we caught up with Christiana Bukalo in Munich — who founded and leads Statefree, a ...

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 ...

Dinhata: Munawwara Bibi runs her finger slowly down a voter list taped to the wall of her local panchayat office. "My name ...

Precolonial statelessness may have been a sign of success, not failure ...

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 ...