The United States is committing for the first time to defining “statelessness” and increasing protections for stateless people in the US, the Department of Homeland Security announced Wednesday. A ...

The international legal definition of a stateless person is “a person who is not considered as a national by any State under the operation of its law”. In simple terms, this means that a stateless ...

GENEVA, August 25, 2011 - Around the world today there are millions of people who are not recognized as citizens of any country. On paper they don't exist anywhere. They are people without a ...

Stateless persons are unable to prove citizenship to any country. Many are forcibly displaced, and all are vulnerable, particularly in conflict zones and other fragile contexts. Mounting evidence ...

I graduated cum laude from Harvard College in 2022, and right now, I’m working as a paralegal in Manhattan, getting ready to apply to law schools this fall. But there’s a catch. I’m “stateless,” which ...

In September 1991, two German tourists in the Tyrolean Alps came across a human corpse so intact that they initially believed they had found a fellow mountaineer who had been killed in an accident — ...