Bulgaria urged to stop locking up stateless people by detained heart doctor
LondonThomson Reuters Foundation A cardiac specialist, who was locked up in Bulgaria for six weeks because he has no nationality, has called on the government to stop treating stateless people like criminals. Sager Al-Anezi, who is from a large stateless population in Kuwait called the Bidoon, qualified as a doctor after moving to Bulgaria in […]
ROHINGYA CRISIS: AID WORKERS RACE TO BATTEN DOWN REFUGEE CAMP WITH NO SIGN OF CRISIS ENDING
BELINDA GOLDSMITH and NAIMUL KARIM, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, report from Cox’s Bazar…
Statelessness can be seen as “most extreme violation” of international law, says NGO head
The existence of statelessness can be viewed as the “most extreme violation” the international law, according to the president of German NGO, Bread for the World. In comments made at a conference on the issue held in Berlin last week, Rev Dr Cornelia Füllkrug-Weitzel, whose organisation is the development and relief agency of Protestant churches in […]
Progress made in eradicating statelessness at risk by ongoing conflicts, says UN High Commissioner for Refugees
Progress made in eradicating statelessness around the world is being put at risk by ongoing conflicts, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi said last week. Speaking in Geneva on the second anniversary of the launch of the #IBelong campaign to end statelessness by 2024, Mr Grandi renewed calls for a concerted effort by the international […]