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Stateless in West Africa

Stateless in West Africa

Feb 25, 2015 | Featured Story

Lisette, 20, was born and raised in Côte d’Ivoire. To make a living, she sells grains of millet at the local market in Zuenoula. But without ID documents to prove her birthplace, or her ancestral ties to Burkina Faso, she might as well be invisible. Bereft of a...

Statelessness in Lebanon: Leal’s Story

Nov 4, 2014 | Video

“To be stateless is like you don’t exist, you simply don’t exist. You live in a parallel world with no proof of your identity” – Leal Leal was born in Lebanon but is stateless. Her grandfather was Lebanese but did not register the birth...

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