A group of Feili Kurds discuss their concerns at a recent meeting with UNHCR staff. © UNHCR/V.Tan
News on statelessness

Top story:
Feili Kurds in Iran seek way out of identity impasse
Date: 28 May 2008
 After decades of exile in Iran, thousands of Feili Kurds may now have a chance to return home and restore their Iraqi nationality.


Other stories:

5 August 2008 | HTML
UNHCR helping refugees avoid statelessness in Montenegro

30 April 2008 | HTML
UNHCR and UN Population Fund strengthen ties

25 September 2007 | HTML
Good news for groups of stateless people after years of stagnation

23 July 2007 | HTML
Myanmar: UNHCR promotes first significant steps towards citizenship for disenfranchised minority

31 May 2007 | HTML
UNHCR mobilizes lawyers to combat statelessness in Montenegro

26 Apr 2007 | HTML
Central Asian states explore issue of statelessness at EU-UNHCR workshop

26 Mar 2007 | HTML
UNHCR launches media campaign against statelessness in Sri Lanka

26 Feb 2007 | HTML
UNHCR urges Slovenia to resolve the problem of its "erased cases"

14 Feb 2007 | HTML
Divorce leaves some Vietnamese women broken-hearted and stateless

16 Jan 2007 | HTML
Slovenian authorities turned legal resident into asylum seeker

8 Nov 2006 | HTML
Vietnamese local governments smooth the way for stateless Cambodians

30 Oct 2006 | HTML
Stateless former Cambodians caught in Kafkaesque web in Viet Nam

20 Oct 2005 | HTML
New handbook on statelessness addresses 11 million "forgotten" people

8 Jun 2005 | HTML
Helping Crimean Tatars feel at home again

11 Nov 2004 | PDF
Citizenship and Statelessness in Bosnia and Herzegovina: respecting European and International norms

7 Oct 2004 | HTML
Feature: Sri Lanka makes citizens out of stateless tea pickers

6 Oct 2004 | HTML
Ukraine, Sri Lanka provide models for solving statelessness

6 Oct 2004
Information Note for the Panel Discussion on the 50th Anniversary of the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons
English | French

Refugees Magazine, No. 134, 2004
The Road Home: The Faili Kurds

4 Dec 2003 | HTML
UNHCR applauds Sri Lanka's move to recognise stateless Tamils

Refugees Magazine, No. 132, 2003
Statelessness: Nine million ghosts

Refugees Magazine, No. 112, 1998; updated by the Department of International Protection in October 2001
The problem of statelessness has become a live issue again

8 Oct 1998 | HTML
UNHCR to push for wider ratification of Refugee and Statelessness Conventions

29 May 1996 | HTML
Geneva conference to tackle massive displacements in CIS


Refugees Magazine
Issue N° 147:
The Excluded: The strange hidden world of the stateless (September 2007)

The World's Stateless People - Q & A
Answers to some of the most commonly asked questions about stateless persons and how UNHCR attempts to help them, published September 2006 (pdf, 1.3 Mb).

UNHCR Photo Gallery
Statelessness in Bangladesh: The Biharis. A solution nears?

Statelessness in Sri Lanka
Visit UNHCR's Sri Lanka website for information on UNHCR's 2003 and 2004 statelessness campaigns in Sri Lanka.


2007 Global Trends: Refugees, Asylum-seekers, Returnees, Internally Displaced and Stateless Persons
See in particular the explanatory text at page 19 and detailed statistical data in annexes, available for downloading here (Excel tables and hi-res pdf, zipped format, 4.9Mb).


Protection of stateless people and prevention of statelessness
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