BRUSSELS, Belgium, September 1 (UNHCR) - Three years ago, Railya Abulkhanova told a UNHCR film crew that she felt like a tumbleweed. "It rolls . . . with the breeze it rolls away. That is what it is.

IntroductionThe legal regulation of nationality, statelessness, extradition, and asylum occupies a critical position at the intersection of State sovereignty and evolving international human rights ...

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.

By Garfield L. Angus The future of the Palestinian question has long depended not only on Palestinian resistance or Israeli policy, but also on the shifting balance of regional power in the Middle ...

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 ...

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 ...

Anticipatory self-defence in Jewish political thought begins there. It cannot be settled by repeating the language 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A new law allowing Moldova to revoke the citizenship of individuals under international sanctions risks leaving people stateless, some legal experts say. A border police officer (R) checks the ...

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 ...