Millions of people are not recognised as citizens by any country, often depriving them of basic rights most of the world takes for granted such as education, healthcare and jobs. The United Nations' ...

I was born in a country that no longer exists. The country that replaced it does not recognize me as a citizen and the country I am living in does not have a legal framework to help people like me. My ...

Greg Constantine began working on what would become the Nowhere People project in 2005. A year-long project spurred by meeting North Korean defectors in China morphed into a decade-long investigation ...

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS), through U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), today issued new guidance to assist stateless noncitizens in the United States who wish to obtain ...

COVID-19 is worsening the plight of millions of stateless people worldwide, UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi warned today. Marking the sixth anniversary of UNHCR’s #IBelong Campaign, ...

Are you stateless and looking for help Visit the HELP site to find support and services from UNHCR. Are you stateless and looking for help? See our dedicated HELP site. The Universal Declaration of ...

In 1992, when Tatianna Lesnikova's son, David, was 15, she feared for his life. The Soviet government had already taken her eldest son in 1989 when he was 16 and committed him to a mental hospital for ...

Millions of people have no citizenship in any country--victims of war, complicated refugee policies, bureaucratic quirks and shifting national borders, the Economist reports. The ranks of the ...

A landfill at Mile 8 near here has been home for some 270 poor and stateless families for around 30 years. The landfill is the only place the undocumented families could turn to after they were ...

The United States is committing for the first time to defining “statelessness” and increasing protections for stateless people in the US, the Department of Homeland Security announced Wednesday. A ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...