Kyrgz rights lawyer to be honoured at Nansen Refugee Award ceremony
Azizbek Ashurov, 2019’s Nansen Refugee Award Winner, spent over a decade helping the Kyrgyz Republic to resolve statelessness in a historic first.
Azizbek Ashurov, 2019’s Nansen Refugee Award Winner, spent over a decade helping the Kyrgyz Republic to resolve statelessness in a historic first.
UN Refugee Chief Filippo Grandi warned today that advances in the battle to end statelessness are at risk due to a rise in damaging forms of nationalism.
Heading out on foot, on horseback and in four-wheel drives, Azizbek Ashurov and his team of lawyers have helped Kyrgyzstan to end statelessness.
A lawyer whose work supported the efforts of the Kyrgyz Republic in ending statelessness has been selected as the 2019 winner of the Nansen Refugee Award.
Ahead of the High-Level Segment on Statelessness, UNHCR Canda has released a new study that looks at the situation of stateless persons in Canada.
Abdusamat Saparov dreamed of being a beekeeper for over 20 years. But without a birth certificate or passport, statelessness made it seem impossible.
A UNHCR-supported documentation programme seeks to assure indigenous Sama Bajau people can access education, health care and housing in the Philippines.
Colombia has taken a major step in combatting statelessness by ensuring that children born in the country to Venezuelan parents can acquire Colombian nationality.
Government move to issue birth certificates to 600 children from Shona community hailed as an important protection measure and first step towards ending statelessness for the group.
In a breakthrough in the fight against statelessness, Kyrgyzstan has issued birth certificates and passports to the last stateless people in the country.