Reducing Statelessness

UNHCR has launched a new effort to find solutions for stateless persons around the world through better identification of stateless populations, enhanced prevention of statelessness, increased reduction of statelessness, and improved protection of stateless populations. For more information about this effort, read "Statelessness: UNHCR Action to Address Statelessness - A Strategy Note" (UNHCR, March 2010).

Other recent documents relating to statelessness:

Birth Registration: A Topic Proposed for an Executive Committee Conclusion on International Protection, EC/61/SC/CRP.5 (EXCOM Standing Committee, Feb. 2010) [text]

Citizenship Law in Africa (Open Society Institute & AfriMAP, Oct. 2009) [text]

Count Every Child: The Right to Birth Registration (PLAN, 2009) [text]

From Mariel Cubans to Guantanamo Detainees: Stateless Persons Detained under U.S. Authority (Equal Rights Trust, Jan. 2010) [text]

Human Rights and Arbitrary Deprivation of Nationality: Report of the Secretary-General, A/HRC/13/34 (UN Human Rights Council, Dec. 2009) [text via Refworld]

Update on Equal Rights Trust "Project on Detention of Stateless Persons," Equal Rights Review, vol. 4 (2009) [text]

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