This report goes in-depth into the issue of childhood statelessness driven by gender discriminatory laws, policies and practices. It discusses the relationship between gender discrimination and statelessness among children, illustrates the consequences of

This practical tool has been developed for the purpose of identifying persons in the context of detention who may be stateless and to support the achievement of solutions to their predicament. This tool may be used to identify stateless persons before the

Stateless children are profoundly affected by their status. The UNHCR has released this report to highlight the case of stateless children in the world. In July and August of 2015, UNHCR spoke with over 250 children and adolescents, and their parents and

UNHCR insists that the problem of statelessness is largely avoidable, and with adequate political will, entirely solvable too. A major hurdle to solutions is that governments and UNHCR lack adequate data on many stateless populations. Frequently stateless

Nils Muižnieks is a human rights activist and political scientist who has served as Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights since April 2012. This publication is in celebration of 25 years of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Chil

The Global Action Plan to End Statelessness: 2014-2024 establishes a guiding framework of 10 actions to be undertaken by States, with the support of UNHCR and other stakeholders to: Resolve existing major situations of statelessness; Prevent new cases of

The European Network on Statelessness (ENS) is a civil society alliance dedicated to strengthening the often unheard voice of stateless people in Europe and to advocate for the full respect of their human rights. This publication addresses the challenge o

This issue of Forced Migration Review includes a large theme section that examines the particular stresses of ‘being young and out of place,’ explores young people’s needs  and coping strategies and asks why relatively little attention is paid to the righ

This issue of Forced Migration Review includes a large theme section that examines the particular stresses of ‘being young and out of place,’ explores young people’s needs  and coping strategies and asks why relatively little attention is paid to the righ