Birth certificates to prevent statelessness When baby Idrees’ house was destroyed in Syria, his family lost everything except for what was kept inside his grandmother’s purse. His family was forced to flee to neighbouring Jordan, where they now live in Zaatari refugee...
"I feel like I am not a human being. I feel empty." “I feel like I am apart from other people. Like I am not a human being. I feel empty. I feel alone. Without papers, you are nothing in the world.” Clémentine is 21 and stateless in Côte d’Ivoire. Because of this she...
We are also human beings." "Try to understand our lives. Kavita, 22, is from Malaysia and wants to be an art teacher. She has been offered jobs at schools but cannot take them because she is stateless. She was born in Malaysia and has lived there all of her life. For...
"The one thing I need to achieve my dream is citizenship" Jirair wants to be a professional athlete in Georgia. But when his team travel to compete, he stays behind to train by himself. Why? Because he is stateless. We believe Jirair and all other stateless people...
in South Sudan Preventing statelessness “I never realized the importance of having nationality documents until I returned to Wau and tried to claim my family’s property”, says 47-year-old Lucia Tomo. “I almost lost my house and my land because I could not prove my...
