Millions of people around the world are denied a nationality. Having no nationality often means you cannot go to school, see a doctor, get a job, open a bank account, buy a house or even get married.

Stateless persons are unable to prove citizenship to any country. Many are forcibly displaced, and all are vulnerable, particularly in conflict zones and other fragile contexts. Mounting evidence ...

Hannah Arendt, in The Origins of Totalitarianism, calls citizenship the right to have rights, a sentiment which entered jurisprudence in 1958 through U.S. Supreme Court Justice Earl Warren, who wrote ...

Stateless children or those at risk of statelessness face barriers in accessing education, since schools often require official documents for admission. In the heart of Karachi, nestled within one of ...

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 ...

In January 2017, 49-year-old Shiva Ganesh from Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu, working as an IT administrator in Singapore, received a notice from the Indian passport authority asking him to explain why ...

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