News and stories

More than 27,000 stateless people have acquired Thai nationality since the end of 2011 thanks to the concerted efforts of the government with the support of UNHCR and its NGO partner. Watch a video highlighting how Thailand has done so.

Two years after UNHCR first met Artee, she has acquired Thai nationality with the help of UNHCR’s partner, the Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA). Watch her new video.

Nuhija Abazi takes one step closer to obtaining citizenship in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Maha Mamo talks about life without a nationality

Global initiatives highlight the continuing importance of UNHCR’s efforts to eradicate statelessness

An end to two decades of uncertainty for the Elsani family and over 1,000 others in Montenegro

UNHCR report on the urgent need to end childhood statelessness.

This is the story of three children who have grown up in Côte d’Ivoire without a nationality because one of both of their parents abandoned them.

The UN Refugee Agency has welcomed an announcement by the Royal Thai Government that more than 18,000 stateless people have been granted nationality in Thailand in the last three years.

Mali and Sierra Leone step up prevention from cradle to grave.