An estimated 10 million people worldwide are stateless, including three million officially, a status that deprives them of an identity, rights, and often jobs, the United Nations refugee agency said. In a report, "This is Our Home" - Stateless Minorities and their Search for Citizenship", the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) called on governments to end the discriminatory practice by 2024.
"If you live in this world without a nationality, you are without an identity, you are without documentation, without the rights and entitlements that we take for granted ... having a job, having education, knowing that your child belongs somewhere," Carol Batchelor, director of UNHCR's division of international protection, told a news briefing.
UNHCR spokesman Adrian Edwards said 3.2 million people in 75 countries were known to be stateless, having been registered or counted by governments. But the estimated total is 10 million, including large populations in countries including Indonesia, Ivory Coast, Lebanon and the Democratic Republic of Congo, he said. Rohingyas in Myanmar form the world's biggest stateless minority. Other stateless groups -- many of whom have lived for generations in their homelands -- include many Syrian Kurds, the Karana of Madagascar, Roma in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, and the Pemba of Kenya, the report said.
Further Reading:
http://www.worldsocialism.org/spgb/socialist-standard/2010s/2015/no-1331-july-2015/material-world-stateless-capitalism
"If you live in this world without a nationality, you are without an identity, you are without documentation, without the rights and entitlements that we take for granted ... having a job, having education, knowing that your child belongs somewhere," Carol Batchelor, director of UNHCR's division of international protection, told a news briefing.
UNHCR spokesman Adrian Edwards said 3.2 million people in 75 countries were known to be stateless, having been registered or counted by governments. But the estimated total is 10 million, including large populations in countries including Indonesia, Ivory Coast, Lebanon and the Democratic Republic of Congo, he said. Rohingyas in Myanmar form the world's biggest stateless minority. Other stateless groups -- many of whom have lived for generations in their homelands -- include many Syrian Kurds, the Karana of Madagascar, Roma in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, and the Pemba of Kenya, the report said.
Further Reading:
http://www.worldsocialism.org/spgb/socialist-standard/2010s/2015/no-1331-july-2015/material-world-stateless-capitalism
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