Fighting statelessness in Benin: birth certificates are distributed in the disputed area of Kourou-Koualou

“I will now be able to go to school! I hope one day to become a teacher”

November 21, 2014 News

Strengthening asylum policy and the fight against statelessness on the agenda of a high level meeting

The new asylum project is based on a strong tradition of hospitality and of protection for refugees in the country

November 4, 2014 Stories

“We’re citizens of nowhere”, the plight of stateless persons on Île aux Oiseaux

Some 2,000 persons live on the small island with no identity papers. Île aux Oiseaux was transferred to Benin in 2005, after a border dispute with Niger, but the international Justice decision failed to determine the nationality of its inhabitants.