Global/Africa: Lives on Hold: The Human Cost of Statelessness

In a new report, Refugees International announced that 11 million individuals worldwide have no citizenship or effective nationality and called on the United Nations and individual countries to take measures to reduce the problem. “Stateless people are international orphans who have fallen through the cracks of the United Nations,” said Maureen Lynch, Refugees International’s Director of Research and the author of the report. “Unlike other populations of this size, the international community has largely ignored the problems facing the 11 million people who have no citizenship or effective nationality. This is especially true for those who are not classified as refugees.”