Côte d’Ivoire adopts Africa’s first legal process to identify and protect stateless people
UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, welcomes Côte d’Ivoire’s adoption this week of Africa’s first Statelessness Determination Procedure. This will help protect thousands of people in the country who are without a nationality. Two regulations signed on 2 September formally...
More progress on statelessness in Central Asia as Turkmenistan becomes latest country to champion universal birth registration
UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, welcomes a new law in Turkmenistan which will help ensure that all children born in the country will have their births registered. The Law on Civil Status Acts, which entered in to force in July, will help prevent new cases of...
‘With this law, I will finally get a sense of how it is to exist’
A new statelessness determination procedure in Ukraine gives people without identity documents the right to work, study and access health care. By Victoria Andrievska in Kyiv, Ukraine Despite having cancer, Olena Miryasheva was denied access to health care: she could...