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https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/world-news/half-a-million-stateless-people-got-citizenship-in-past-decade-un/articleshow/114139567.cms>
'The UN said Friday that in the decade since it launched a campaign to end the
limbo of statelessness, over half a million people without a nationality had
acquired citizenship.
In a report, the United Nations' refugee agency detailed the progress made
since it launched its #IBelong campaign in 2014. Its aim was to mobilise
international action to resolve the problem of statelessness.
The UNHCR described statelessness as "a major human rights violation".
It leaves people politically and economically marginalised, unable to access
critical services and particularly vulnerable to exploitation and abuse, the
agency argued.
Last year, the UNHCR reported that there were 4.4 million stateless people
recorded, but that millions more were affected since the data only covers
around half of the world's countries.
The campaign, which ends this year, aimed to address "a largely invisible
crisis: that of millions of people around the world living in the shadows,
without a nationality, unable to assert their most basic human rights", said
UNHCR chief Filippo Grandi.
While welcoming "significant progress" towards the ambitious goal of ending
statelessness, he added "our work is not yet done".
The report found that "more than 565,900 stateless people and persons with
undetermined nationality gained nationality" over the past decade.
Australian actor Cate Blanchett, UNHCR's goodwill ambassador, said the progress
had been "remarkable".
"Twenty countries have improved rights for stateless people, (and) 13 countries
have passed laws to ensure that no child is born stateless," she said.
"We must make sure that anyone still living without nationality is given the
right to be recognised and included."'
Via
What Could Go Right? The Race to 2030
https://theprogressnetwork.org/sustainable-development-goals-progress/
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*** Xanni ***
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