More than half a million people around the world who were living in the shadows, deprived of their right to nationality, have now acquired citizenship since the inception a decade ago of the #IBelong campaign, according to a new report on statelessness released today by UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency.
A major human rights violation, statelessness deprives individuals of basic legal rights, leaving them politically and economically marginalized, unable to access critical services like health and education, discriminated against and particularly vulnerable to exploitation and abuse.
UNHCR launched the campaign in October 2014 to mobilize international action to resolve the scourge of statelessness. The campaign closes this year. There have been many notable achievements over the last 10 years to enable hundreds of thousands of stateless people to acquire citizenship, to better identify and protect stateless people, or to help ensure that no child is born stateless. Since 2010, there have been a total of 77 new accessions to the 1954 and 1961 UN Statelessness Conventions. At least 22 states have adopted national action plans to end statelessness in the last decade.
From Turkmenistan to Portugal, North Macedonia, Rwanda, Brazil, Vietnam, Thailand and beyond, decisive action to counter statelessness has been taken.
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20 окт 2024
