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New Global Alliance launched for joint action to end statelessness
UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi joined by statelessness advocates to launch new global initiative building on a decade of progress.
High Commissioner’s opening statement to the seventy-fifth plenary session of the Executive Committee of the High Commissioner’s Programme
Good morning. This has been a year of extremes. A year of contradictions. A year of loss and of grief, without doubt, as we continue to witness conflict, violence and abuses that displace millions. Fed by the belief – no: the terrible lie – that the path to peace is found through war.
States must protect stateless refugees and asylum-seekers: UN human rights experts
The launch of the Global Alliance to End Statelessness is a key opportunity to accelerate efforts to eradicate statelessness. This serious global human rights issue affects millions of people who are deprived of a nationality. As a result, they face barriers in accessing services essential for realizing their human rights to education, employment, and healthcare, among others.
UNHCR: Decade of action against statelessness brings big gains but further action needed
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.
Counselling offers Afghan women a safe space to share their mental health struggles
Increasing restrictions on women and girls, a worsening economy, and decades of conflict have contributed to a mental health crisis that is particularly impacting women.
In Burkina Faso, the ‘Mother of the Sahel’ brings education and hope to forcibly displaced children
As conflict forced thousands of children to flee to the safety of her hometown, Maimouna Ba rallied the community to provide support and education.
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