He was born stateless, and after the war was "still a stateless Jew, stateless person," she said.
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Ekaterina is a member of United Stateless, a campaign group comprising stateless people from various backgrounds living in the United States.
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She said stateless people often lived isolated lives and hoped United Stateless would spur the creation of similar groups around the world.
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"Stateless people live in fear of detention - all the time," said another woman in the video called D.A. who was born stateless in Kuwait.
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Governments should give nationality to people born on their territory if they would otherwise be stateless, and facilitate naturalization for longtime stateless residents, UNHCR says.
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Stateless people do not have passports so were unable to attend in person to tell their stories, although delegates included a number of formerly stateless people.
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"We don't want them to be stateless, because if you're stateless you have a legal problem that will affect the child and affect the host country," he said.
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Latvia's "non-citizen" policy leaves thousands feeling stateless Latvia's "non-citizen" policy leaves thousands feeling stateless A decision taken over 2000 years ago has left many in Latvia feeling rootless.
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Here are some examples of stateless populations: MYANMAR/BANGLADESH: In 1982, Buddhist-majority Myanmar passed a citizenship law that effectively rendered stateless most Rohingya, who are Muslim and of South Asian descent.
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Ilareva said government figures showed more than 130 stateless people had been detained in the last decade and the real number was probably higher as stateless people were often wrongly ascribed a nationality.
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That rendered them, in effect, stateless, and their mistreatment intensified.
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Making a person stateless is worse than a death sentence.
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With no country to call home, they are officially stateless.
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San Benito is Moro's debut for the stateless record label.
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UNWRA is simply provide social services to these stateless refugees.
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Attempts to avoid making someone stateless can create other problems.
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Bangladesh insists they are from Myanmar, rendering them effectively stateless.
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Many people become Refugees, Internally Displaced, Asylum Seekers, or Stateless.
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They are a stateless people denied citizenship, rights and protection.
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Most Rohingya have been rendered stateless by the Myanmar government.
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Judge gets personal I came to this country stateless, unnaturalized.
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Babies are not issued birth certificates and grow up stateless.
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Others become stateless as new nations emerge, or borders change.
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Once their Chinese passports expire, they are left effectively stateless.
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IVORY COAST: Ivory Coast is home to 692,000 stateless people.
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The crew of the Aquarius might have rescued 58 stateless people with no place to call home, but they themselves were now stateless, hundreds of miles from safety, and unsure where they would end up.
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To avoid making people stateless, Britain has focused on dual nationals.
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Children often become stateless if they cannot inherit their father's nationality.
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He's been stateless since, and continues to live in the Netherlands.
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Their children are also born here stateless, denied citizenship and passports.
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In the meantime, the Rohingya continue to flee, stateless and terrorized.
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Their children are stateless since the Bahamas doesn't grant birthright citizenship.
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Most Rohingya are stateless and regarded as illegal immigrants from Bangladesh.
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The "métis" children were not given Belgian nationality, and remained stateless.
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"I was a stateless person when I met Ray," he added.
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They are one of the largest stateless groups in the world.
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They are stateless murderers plotting from failed-state ghettos like Libya.
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And it's not clear where the newly stateless people would go.
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To be disenrolled is to lose that citizenship: to become stateless.
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She was stateless and single-minded about the value of education.
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In fact, until recently, these Comorans were legally stateless, or bidoon.
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Although many have since had their nationality reinstated, others remain stateless.
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There are 488,105 stateless people registered in Thailand, according to government statistics.
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In December, the Chinese government abruptly canceled Abduweli's passport, rendering him stateless.
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Mr Saakashvili is stateless, having been stripped of Georgian and Ukrainian citizenship.
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Russia already has close ties with Israel; the stateless Palestinians offer nothing.
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" In a 1998 interview with Maclean's magazine, Safer said he felt "stateless.
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But most have never received the correct paperwork and are effectively stateless.
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On Wednesday, the boys were among 30 stateless people granted Thai rights.
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More than 486,000 people are registered as stateless, according to official data.
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He relinquished Prussian citizenship early in his career and remained proudly stateless.
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Those fighters disavow nationalism and envision a stateless society without gender distinctions.
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It left him effectively stateless as Georgia has also withdrawn his citizenship.
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Most have been rendered stateless, even though their homes are in Rakhine.
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Children born here to refugees, like Rodel's daughter Keana, are effectively stateless.
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"If they are stateless, where are they going to go?" he said.
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The 1951 Refugee Convention, while imperfect, once offered protections to stateless, persecuted people.
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The stateless cannot register the birth of a child or legally get married.
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They involve state powers and stateless groups that claim to represent large populations.
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The Rohingya are regarded as illegal immigrants in Myanmar and most are stateless.
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The country must overhaul its 1982 Citizenship Law which rendered the Rohingya stateless.
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In many ways IS is becoming more like a conventional, stateless, terrorist organisation.
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They're a stateless people -- not allowed to leave, but simultaneously denied a home.
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After a restrictive citizenship law was introduced in 1982, most Rohingya became stateless.
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But the Wild Boars provided a haven for stateless and Thai children alike.
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Such criteria, applied across India, left a good percentage of its citizens stateless.
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Officially, as a team, its athletes are stateless, competing under a neutral flag.
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The Rohingya became the largest stateless population within a country in the world.
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Breakingviews General Electric has seen the future: It is both stateless and globalist.
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It was invoked the way terrorism was after 9/11: shadowy, stateless, destabilizing.
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The Rohingya became the largest stateless population within a country in the world.
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BEIRUT, Lebanon — They seek to sweep away borders and establish a stateless society.
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"Babies born to couples who didn't register their marriage risk becoming stateless," she said.
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Now, increasingly, they are stripping dissidents, and their families, of citizenship, leaving them stateless.
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In a flash, approximately 210,000 Dominicans of Haitian descent, including Raquel, were made stateless.
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For Formin, a stateless Rohingya Muslim from Buddhist-dominated Myanmar, it meant the world.
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International law frowns on making people stateless; Australia's law applies only to dual-nationals.
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The law would not apply to single nationality Danes who could be left stateless.
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Myanmar does not consider the Rohingya a native ethnic group and most are stateless.
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Rendering people stateless in a mass trial is a clear violation of international law.
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The Kurds are a large, stateless ethnic group spread across Turkey, Syria, and Iraq.
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That means I am now stateless and pretty much can't leave the United States.
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When there are problems in their immigration status, a stateless person can do nothing.
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The government's stance makes them one of the largest stateless groups in the world.
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"Stateless children have a fighting spirit that makes them want to excel," he said.
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Most of people declared stateless are likely to be barred from voting as well.
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In 1982, Myanmar's military junta revoked the citizenship of most Rohingya, rendering them stateless.
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Almost all Rohingya are stateless, stuck in an official netherworld between the two countries.
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Why Indians are protesting 2 controversial laws that could leave millions of Muslims stateless
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Also troubling is how little choice the stateless people have had in the matter.
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Other Roma in Kosovo and Bosnia have become stateless due to war-time displacement.
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"We have been told that the national census has a provision to capture data on stateless people which is important, and UNHCR is appealing to all stateless people in Kenya to come out and identify themselves during the exercise," said the UNHCR's Munaita.
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The delegation included several Myanmar Muslim leaders, some belonging to the mostly stateless Rohingya minority.
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An estimated 10 to 15 million people are stateless worldwide, often deprived of basic rights.
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With no nationality, stateless people are denied the basic rights most people take for granted.
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Instead she became a musical superstar and one of her stateless people's best-loved singers.
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But less than a third of the estimated 210,000 left stateless successfully reclaimed their citizenship.
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The stateless Rohingya are seen by many Myanmar Buddhists as illegal immigrants from Bangladesh. Col.
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Jolie said she had met stateless Rohingya who described being "treated like cattle" in Myanmar.
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Stateless people include indigenous hill dwellers and children of migrants who were born in Thailand.
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Many in Myanmar refer to them as "Bengalis," insinuating that they are stateless illegal immigrants.
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Domestic firms cannot play these stateless income games, and so cannot compete fairly with multinationals.
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But in its heyday, anarchism promoted a broadly appealing vision of a free, stateless society.
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Since the Bahamas does not grant birthright citizenship, children of undocumented Haitian immigrants are stateless.
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More than 486,000 people are registered as stateless with the Thai government, official data show.
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Most Rohingya are stateless and they are regarded in Myanmar as illegal immigrants form Bangladesh.
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There are 430,000 stateless people living in Thailand, according to the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR).
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He says the move has effectively made his client stateless, which is against British law.
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An estimated 60 million such stateless people exist, 1 in every 122 people alive today.
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Not undergoing the Buddhist ordination is Adul Sam-on, 14, a stateless Christian from Myanmar.
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If the camp were to shut down, the refugees would effectively be homeless and stateless.
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A plan to send the stateless Muslims back to Myanmar has been halted for now.
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Despite nearly 70 years of presence in Lebanon, the stateless refugees live under harsh conditions.
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Most Rohingya have been stripped of their citizenship by the Myanmar government, making them stateless.
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Stateless still, the Palestinian people are in deep trouble, their prospects as dim as ever.
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Critics of the law say it will further marginalize Muslims, and could leave millions stateless.
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Muslim Indians worry that the government could use it to render many of them stateless.
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His journey also underscores a vexing problem: how to handle masses of virtually stateless wanderers.
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When people are rendered stateless — without citizenship of any country — their existence becomes extremely precarious.
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The mostly stateless Rohingya have been sequestered and preyed upon by Myanmar's military for years.
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Today, they are mostly stateless, their very identity denied by the Buddhist-majority Myanmar state.
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A Comoros passport does help stateless people travel and deal more easily with everyday bureaucracy.
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The Rohingya were rendered stateless in 1982 when their right to Burmese citizenship was withdrawn.
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Because they are stateless, the Rohingya have been subjected to discrimination and denied basic human rights.
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NEW YORK (Reuters Breakingviews) - General Electric has seen the future: it is both stateless and globalist.
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An estimated one million Rohingya live in Rakhine, where they are a persecuted, stateless ethnic minority.
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Of the 70-80 boys in the team&aposs four age brackets, around 20 are stateless.
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Kanter, who has been in the U.S. since 2011 and has legal residency, is essentially stateless.
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This is a blow against ISIS and an important step in the fight against stateless terrorism.
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Stateless people viewed with suspicion with no rights are now under military assault from all sides.
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It also called on her to help with a citizenship law, which leaves Rohingya people stateless.
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The prospect of so many being made stateless, and possibly expelled, has understandably aroused a furore.
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Cherlina now works at a restaurant in Imbert and, since 230, has been among the stateless.
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Stateless people, she argues, must rely on others' respect for human rights to secure their safety.
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The majority of residents in the area are Muslims belonging to the stateless Rohingya ethnic group.
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The executive and his wife are now effectively stateless and seeking asylum in a foreign country.
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It also made them stateless, denying the Rohingya the ability to work, marry, and travel freely.
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Most Rohingya are stateless and unrecognized by the two countries they call home - Bangladesh and Myanmar.
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But as a stateless person living in the United States, she could not even do that.
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Resettling refugees in third countries has never been the solution to the problem of stateless people.
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The Rohingya are stateless and are considered one of the most persecuted peoples in the world.
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Sometimes referred to as "legal ghosts", stateless people are not recognized as nationals by any country.
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They are stateless, and have been excluded from Myanmar's official list of 43 indigenous ethnic groups.
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But most Rohingya were never granted the paperwork to prove their roots and are effectively stateless.
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Members of the mostly stateless Muslim minority are still flooding into Bangladesh from Myanmar's Rakhine State.
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Their stateless status denied them national health care, Civil Service jobs and access to sports leagues.
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Now he was stateless, homeless and soaked by the monsoons and the occasional surge of sewage.
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Why it matters: This could quickly become the largest crisis of stateless people on the planet.
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I've photographed the Kurds, who have known only persecution — an entire ethnic group that remains stateless.
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Nearly all the migrants deemed "stateless" are from African countries that don't have embassies in Mexico.
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By the time America opened its arms to him, he had been stateless for 19953 years.
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In Malaysia and Bangladesh, most Rohingya are stateless, but at least they can hold soccer competitions.
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More than 700,000 stateless Rohingya Muslims have fled into Bangladesh since then, according to U.N. agencies.
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The formerly stateless, currently Comoran, lifelong residents of the Emirates end up classified as foreign nationals.
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There is also a stateless population of people who were expelled by Bhutan in the 1990s.
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The Rohingya are largely stateless and many people in Myanmar view them as illegal immigrants from Bangladesh.
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But Gazans would still be stateless, and for all its rhetoric, Hamas cannot change that by force.
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Most specifically, it called on the government to revise the citizenship law that has left Rohingyas stateless.
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The state will shelter Assam's Bengali-speaking people if the NRC process deems them stateless, she added.
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Todd Schramke has been following anarchists in Acapulco for nearly three years for a documentary called Stateless.
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According to al-Yazeedi's daughter Alanood alJalahma, losing their Bahraini passports could ultimately leave the children stateless.
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In November, Myanmar's army swept through villages where stateless Rohingya Muslims live in the area of Maungdaw.
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Other stateless peoples and regions, too, are accepted by FIFA: Palestine has been a member since 1998.
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This leaves most Russians "stateless," a condition that makes Moscow's promises of citizenship and passports look attractive.
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Children of citizens as well as children of foreign nationals would run the risk of becoming stateless.
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The distributed ledger is best known as the underlying system that makes possible Bitcoin, the stateless cryptocurrency.
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But having been classed as stateless by former junta rulers, Rohingya could struggle to pass the test.
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Many refugees, in fact, are "stateless" because they fall within the gaps of different countries' citizenship rules.
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Nor can hatred in Myanmar of the largely stateless Muslim group be dismissed as a fringe attitude.
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Ignoring the needs of these countries risks creating hundreds of millions of environmental refugees and stateless peoples.
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The Rohingya are stateless people, so victims and their families are not entitled to any state support.
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The threat of imprisonment and torture is deterring many from returning home, in effect rendering them stateless.
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The country's Muslims also fear that a proposed national citizens register could render many of them stateless.
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No one knows how many stateless people there are because less than half of countries have data.
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For about 12 hours, the quintessential global citizen was officially stateless, flying high above Asia in secret.
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British law prevents the government from stripping someone's citizenship if doing so would render the person stateless.
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Kurds, members of a stateless ethnic group, have been fighting for autonomy in the region for decades.
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He was stripped of his Ukrainian citizenship and has also lost his Georgian citizenship, leaving him stateless.
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Some are born stateless because of gaps in nationality laws — in effect, they fall through the cracks.
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They also sought to limit the deprivation of nationality in cases when it would make someone stateless.
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And as the daughter of a Soviet Jewish refugee, I will not accept the criminalization of stateless people.
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Coach Nopparat said he is particularly keen to help the stateless boys who were rescued from the cave.
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The refugee card is the only proof of identity that many stateless Rohingya have to show prospective employers.
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The world's largest population of stateless people cannot be allowed to rot away in Kutupalong for much longer.
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This can happen in cases including where the father is absent, dead, displaced by war or stateless himself.
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Some 24,2000 were stateless until 2003—with an "X" on their identity cards to highlight their lowly status.
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But most Rohingya were never granted the paperwork to prove their roots, so they were effectively rendered stateless.
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But he said the isolation experienced by stateless people in Britain was unlike anything he had seen before.
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Both of their small children, eight months and five years old, are stateless because they were born here.
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The boat, which the Navy described as stateless, and its crew were released once the weapons were confiscated.
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UNHCR estimates that at least 10 million people in the world are stateless and subject to severe consequences.
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And yet, with a population numbering 35 million, the Kurds are the largest stateless people on the planet.
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The Kurds are a stateless group that mainly live in Turkey, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Europe, and North America.
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The Rohingya are a stateless Muslim minority in Myanmar's Rakhine state thought to number about 1 million people.
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Thais view the team as national treasures, but three of the boys, and the coach, are technically stateless.
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And in 1982, the government passed a law that effectively denies citizenship to the Rohingya, making them stateless.
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Under international law, it is illegal to strip people of their citizenship if it will leave them stateless.
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Many stateless people in Thailand come from areas where national borders have changed, leaving their nationality in question.
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Stateless people are dependent on the mercy of their host country, unable to return to their native land.
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Bangladesh has consistently refused to grant the Rohingya any sort of formal status, leaving most of them stateless.
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Once my European citizenship is stripped away from me without my consent, I will be left feeling stateless.
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Effectively stateless by the time the movie begins, the family is a tiny unmoored ship searching for harbor.
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Until we could get that certificate, Jemma was nameless and stateless, invisible in the eyes of the government.
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As stateless migrants, members of ethnic tribes who had historically crisscrossed the border were especially vulnerable to exploitation.
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That would effectively leave them stateless, held by an unrecognized state controlled by Syrian Kurds in northern Syria.
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For 25 years, hundreds of stateless families have lived a kilometer from the fort, in the Azadi camp.
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Many Rohingya, who have been left stateless, oppose going back without guarantees of citizenship and freedom of movement.
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Dulles that it was unconstitutional to revoke citizenship and make someone stateless as a punishment for a crime.
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In 2015, there were about 134,000 stateless people, according to U.N. data, but the figures are being updated.
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The U.N. estimates that 530,000 to 600,000 stateless Rohingyas remain in Rakhine state, including some 360,000 children, he said.
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But it was not immediately clear if all were Rohingya, a largely stateless Muslim minority in Buddhist-majority Myanmar.
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Activists worry many could be left in limbo for years, perhaps decades, stateless wanderers like Myanmar&aposs Rohingya Muslims.
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The Rohingya are a stateless ethnic minority denied citizenship within Myanmar, where they are regarded as illegal Bengali migrants.
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"If this parameter is applied on every Indian, almost all will become stateless," Aman Wadud, a Gauhati lawyer, said.
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A startling stat: A recent Harvard study estimates that one in seven stateless people in the world are Rohingya.
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Treasury's brief thus signals to the world that the United States tolerates stateless income tax planning practiced against others.
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Clarify the status and rights of people living in the country that aren't citizens, including those who are stateless.
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Myanmar does not recognize the Rohingya as citizens and does not issue them official documentation -- rendering them effectively stateless.
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Desperate for work and increasingly stateless, the Rohingya began turning to traffickers to smuggle them out of the country.
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Under the Assad regime, Kurds were forbidden to teach in their own language, and hundreds of thousands were stateless.
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Some of the boys are stateless, and the process of granting them Thai citizenship is under way, officials confirmed.
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Just this February, the government held a group ceremony granting citizenship to 342 stateless people, most of them students.
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He's reported on LGBT refugees in East Africa, stateless people in the Dominican Republic, and corruption in global aid.
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Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon and Facebook have such large global businesses that they have become almost stateless entities themselves.
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More than two million people, many of them Muslims, failed to pass the test and could end up stateless.
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Police and government officials say the stateless Rohingya refugees, who cannot easily be traced, are the traffickers' preferred mules.
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Homeless and stateless Unwanted in Myanmar and unwelcome in Bangladesh, the Rohingya have been on the move for generations.
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But when their visas expired, they became undocumented, stateless refugees, and in 1955 were told they would be deported.
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Mr. Poroshenko this summer rescinded his Ukrainian citizenship while Mr. Saakashvili was out of the country, leaving him stateless.
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The United States and the United Nations have described the campaign as ethnic cleansing of the stateless Rohingya people.
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The former journalist turned lawmaker's biggest battle is gaining nationality rights for thousands of stateless children born to Lebanese women.
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Stateless people often have trouble traveling and struggle to access public services like education and healthcare which require identity documents.
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Suu Kyi herself has been criticized for doing too little to address the plight of Myanmar's stateless Rohingya Muslim minority.
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The Himalayan nation has said it does not have stateless people, but legal experts believe there is a large population.
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Although her son has German citizenship, she said many other children with Omani mothers and foreign fathers end up stateless.
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Many stateless people in Thailand are from ethnic minorities or nomadic hill tribes that straddle the borders of other countries.
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Since 1982, when they were stripped of citizenship, the Rohingya have been considered a stateless people denied their basic rights.
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Some experts warn a focus on economic solutions to Rakhine's problems could cement the marginalisation of the mostly stateless Rohingya.
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Around 2 million people live in Gaza, most of them the stateless descendants of refugees from what is now Israel.
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If you'll recall, the Rohingya are a stateless Muslim ethnic group that have been subject to extreme discrimination and violence.
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Based in the U.S. and Britain, it was more or less stateless, like if the BBC World was mostly bullshit.
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But applying for citizenship remains a "challenging and complex" process, said Janepicha, who has researched stateless people in northern Thailand.
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Three of the boys, as well as their 25-year-old coach, were stateless, though they were born in Thailand.
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If a friend hadn't challenged the tribunal order on their behalf, the family might have remained in detention indefinitely, stateless.
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But some experts warn purely economic solutions to the state's woes could cement the marginalisation of the mostly stateless Rohingya.
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But rights groups have warned that many residents, largely poor Muslims, are at risk of becoming stateless under the process.
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The boat, which the Navy described as stateless, and its crew were allowed to leave once the weapons were taken.
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Rohingya are not recognized as an official ethnicity by the Myanmar government, which denies them citizenship, effectively rendering them stateless.
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The granddaughter of a Palestinian refugee, Ms. Derbas has always been officially stateless, even though she was born in Syria.
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There are nearly half a million stateless people, who are not recognized as nationals of any country, government figures show.
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The Kurds, a stateless people living across Turkey, Syria, Iraq, and Iran, have been at odds with Turkey for decades.
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"If you take away the rodas, we're going to be stateless, without a location to have a voice," she said.
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The Turks consider the Kurds to be a group of stateless terrorists allied with a Kurdish political insurgency inside Turkey.
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The Stone Best to start with a small boy, preferably an immigrant, a stateless refugee from a war-torn continent.
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The victims were made stateless, and subjected to humiliating exit procedures, which involved the confiscation of their possessions and savings.
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The Rohingyas, many with roots in Bangladesh, are deemed stateless and have been excluded from the democratic transition in Myanmar.
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The United Nations refugee agency defines a stateless person as someone who does not have the nationality of any country.
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In Japan, the characters in manga and anime are normally 'stateless,' so I have nothing against Scarlett playing the Major.
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U.N. data suggests the number of stateless fell to 160,000, but this is most likely because many fled the war.
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Experts on statelessness have warned that babies born to Syrian refugee women in Lebanon and Jordan could end up stateless.
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When the war ended, the Lichtensterns were left stateless and could not return to their home in the Netherlands, Fishman said.
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An Iranian embassy official said children born to non-Iranian men were not stateless as they would inherit their father's nationality.
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At this point, my notion is that stateful applications, such as MongoDB, should run in containers alongside stateless clients and services.
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Nopparat said he submitted documentation on Wednesday to help apply for citizenship for seven other Wild Boar players who are stateless.
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For those like Najla—poor, stateless, North African—chances of being granted a visa to the United States are vanishingly small.
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For decades, the Muslim minority in a largely Buddhist country has been denied citizenship, rendered stateless, and stripped of basic rights.
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There are an estimated 10 to 15 million stateless people globally who are not recognized as a citizen of any country.
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Some experts warn that a focus on economic solutions to Rakhine's problems could cement the marginalization of the mostly stateless Rohingya.
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UNHCR estimates there are about 10 million stateless people worldwide, with large populations in Myanmar, Thailand, Zimbabwe and the Ivory Coast.
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But Asylum Aid said there was a backlog of applications, and even those recognized as stateless faced difficulties acquiring British citizenship.
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Such citizens might find themselves stateless because they would not be able to acquire the documents needed to establish U.S. citizenship.
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The case is proving controversial, with suggestions from some quarters that Britain has violated international law by leaving Ms Begum stateless.
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But the group consists of just a few dozen ill-trained recruits radicalised by years-long persecution of the stateless Rohingyas.
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The decision raised alarm among rights groups, who are concerned about the plight of the stateless Rohingya among other ethnic minorities.
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The Rohingya, a mostly-Muslim ethnic group who are effectively stateless, are considered the most persecuted people in the world. 5.
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The six-episode series, produced by Stateless Media, examines the rise of Bitcoin and the tech that allows it to operate.
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One of the few places that exists outside of these borders are airport duty-free zones; these areas are technically stateless.
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Most of all, more troops were sent to northern Rakhine State, where the bulk of the largely stateless Rohingya once lived.
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Op-Ed Contributor KIEV, Ukraine — I may be the first former head of state since a Habsburg to be left stateless.
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"They can't speak their original language and don't have a house in their homeland anymore," Ms. Puttanee said of stateless children.
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Consider his emails transmissions from a global nomad, a man who is "Stateless," as he titled a 26 Dirty Beaches release.
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Despite their numbers, they are a stateless and often marginalized people whose homeland stretches across Turkey, Iraq, Syria, Iran and Armenia.
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Edward Snowden's lawyer in Hong Kong, Jonathan Man, pointed out his client was actually helped by people who were also stateless.
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Blanchett appealed to all nations to give stateless people "their basic human right to belong", adding that solutions were often straightforward.
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"We ask the state to change the law to avoid this situation, which results in children that are stateless," Cardona said.
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The Western-backed Palestinian Authority has limited self-rule in the territory which is home to around 3 million stateless Palestinians.
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The one-two punch of the NRC followed by the CAB could result in millions of newly stateless Muslims becoming refugees.
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Half of these people are children; some are refugees, some are internally displaced, some are stateless, and some are asylum-seekers.
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They have been denied citizenship since the passage of Burma's 1982 citizenship law — and have since been considered a stateless people.
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Those declared non-citizens need not be made stateless, but could simply be stripped of civil rights, perhaps for a limited time.
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As The New York Times has reported, some boys in the Thai cave were stateless refugees who had fled Myanmar for safety.
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Human rights lawyer Amal de Chickera said anyone not possessing a second nationality would risk ending up stateless, as would their children.
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She is one of a growing number of children born to undocumented Venezuelan migrants in Colombia who have been left essentially stateless.
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They were among the 487,000 stateless persons registered with the Thai government this year, according to the United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR).
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Thai students would snigger, and Noknoi and other so-called stateless children were often teased by students and teachers alike, she said.
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Thae Chaung is about 900 km (560 miles) northwest of Dawei and holds internally displaced people, most of whom are stateless Rohingya.
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People end up stateless for a host of complex historical, social and legal reasons - including migration, flawed citizenship laws and ethnic discrimination.
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And when it comes to US multinationals, the results are even more skewed, due to what I've dubbed their "stateless income" shenanigans.
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Many of Thailand's stateless are from hill tribes, with ancestral ties to their territory and are ethnically different from the Thai majority.
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The stateless global world order to which our current leadership is drawn may be intolerable for a more discerning, critically thinking populace.
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Mr. Soylu has complained that in some cases European states have revoked the citizenship of suspected Islamic State members, making them stateless.
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In some others, like Nepal or the United Arab Emirates, exceptions can be made if the father is unknown or stateless himself.
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The Andean country has also given citizenship to more than 24,000 children born to Venezuelan parents, to prevent them from being stateless.
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The Myanmar government has long refused to recognize their citizenship, instead calling them illegal immigrants and leaving the primarily Muslim minority stateless.
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A world in which the tools of identity are as accessible to a stateless refugee as they are to an investment banker.
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Some refugees were invisible or "stateless" in their homeland even before displacement, like Rohingya from Myanmar and many Sub-Saharan African refugees.
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Demjanjuk took the case to trial, and in 2004 an appeals court confirmed the decision, making Demjanjuk stateless for a second time.
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In 1951, von Einem agreed to help the playwright Bertolt Brecht — stateless upon returning to Europe from American exile — obtain Austrian citizenship.
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Many of those fleeing are unable to document their Venezuelan citizenship, leaving their children born in Colombia at risk of being stateless.
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Mr. Saakashvili, who is now stateless, was arrested and deported to Poland in February, but has already vowed to return to Ukraine.
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Instead, they are poised to remain stuck here, stateless and dependent on the generosity of Bangladeshis and international agencies for their lives.
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Ideologically driven by pan-Arabism, policies in post-independence Syria denied citizenship to Kurds in the northeast, rendering the entire community stateless.
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A "refugee" is, by definition, desperate: he has been displaced from his home, has been rendered stateless, has few or no resources.
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"At one point, I thought about renouncing now but then I become stateless and I don't know what that means," Carlsen said.
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While hundreds of thousands of Muslims may become stateless, Hindus and others could be fast-tracked for citizenship under the new law.
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In congressional testimony, she said her father fled the Soviet Union and then the Nazis; her mother grew up "stateless" in Germany.
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Soleimani was among the worst, but he was not from some stateless terrorist organization -- he was a sovereign nation's senior military leader.
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This is the dread experience of becoming a refugee, of joining the 65 million unwanted and stateless people in the world today.
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Resentment against the stateless group has brewed for years in Bangladesh, where authorities have linked them to a surge in methamphetamine use.
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He became stateless in 2009, when he fled Iran because he feared he faced even greater dangers as an outspoken Rhojelat artist.
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SYDNEY, Australia — A stateless Kurdish-Iranian asylum-seeker detained by the Australian government won the country's highest-paying literary prize on Thursday.
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"Civilized nations after World War II saw how abusive the stripping of citizenship that would leave someone stateless was," Mr. Baluarte said.
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Rakhine State is home to a large population of Rohingya Muslims, a stateless ethnic minority that has faced discrimination and persecution for years.
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There is long-simmering communal tension and animosity toward the Rohingya in Myanmar, most of whom are stateless and derided as illegal immigrants.
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In late 2016, Thailand&aposs military government agreed to a plan under which an estimated 80,000 stateless people would be eligible for citizenship.
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U.N. chief Antonio Guterres has described the plight of the world's estimated 10 million stateless people as a cancer that must be excised.
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"In the present moment, these children would be stateless in Colombia, so the obligation is on them to grant citizenship," de Chickera said.
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For now, they are the world's most numerous "stateless" people, and there is little hope left that Myanmar will ever give them citizenship.
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The main victims of all this are the stateless Rohingya who are fleeing the state that refuses to claim them as their own.
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They had covered the crisis in western Rakhine state that has driven 655,000 stateless Rohingya Muslims across the border to Bangladesh since August.
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Myanmar has denied discriminating against 1.1 million Rohingya Muslims in the country, most of whom remain stateless and live in apartheid-like conditions.
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Relief officials fear that few Rohingya, a stateless and long-persecuted minority in Myanmar, carried such documents in their desperate scramble to leave.
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Those with "national verifications cards" - known as NVCs - would be guaranteed "socio-economic development", but those without will be "stateless", the pamphlet says.
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The group says stateless people in Thailand are unable to vote, buy land, seek legal employment, work in certain occupations or travel freely.
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Most Rohingyas are technically stateless—due to a 1982 law that denies them full citizenship—and have long been persecuted for their religion.
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Fiji has since said that Neil Prakash, now jailed in Turkey, does not have Fijian citizenship, meaning Australia has effectively left him stateless.
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The refugees are stateless, with Myanmar refusing to accept them and Bangladesh referring to them as "undocumented Myanmar nationals," according to the Economist.
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The bottom line: The Rohingya are stateless — with Bangladesh's government calling them "undocumented Myanmar nationals" and Myanmar refusing to recognize them as citizens.
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The Rohingya are a stateless, Muslim minority in predominantly Buddhist Myanmar and are considered some of the most persecuted people in the world.
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Stripped of their citizenship, they became stateless internees, separated from each other in different camps, where many died of cold, hunger, and thirst.
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After the team was rescued from the cave, the officials had promised to start the process of granting the stateless boys Thai citizenship.
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They grew up with war; as displaced, stateless people; as orphans; as children who had to support their families from a young age.
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That means Balde is effectively stateless—a person whose native country won't acknowledge them and whose country of residence has not naturalized them.
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Several of the boys had entered Thailand as stateless children from Myanmar, including Adul, who was able to interpret for the foreign divers.
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But the process typically takes years, she added, and many stateless people in Thailand face restrictions on where they can work and travel.
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We mostly stayed on the east bank, an area out of Damascus's hands that is effectively stateless and boxed in by hostile powers.
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DHAKA, Bangladesh — More than 1.9 million people living in Assam, a state of about 33 million in northeastern India, effectively became stateless recently.
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The Rohingya have faced discriminatory policies and oppression in Myanmar for decades; the government refuses to grant citizenship to Rohingyas, leaving them stateless.
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But they have now fallen out so badly that on Wednesday, Mr. Poroshenko stripped Mr. Saakashvili of his Ukrainian citizenship, leaving him stateless.
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The Rohingya have essentially been made stateless by being denied the right of citizenship, which has contributed to making their existence so precarious.
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In effect, the Rohingya are not afforded any protection under the law, and are rendered stateless with no political, economic or social rights.
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UNHCR spokesman Adrian Edwards said 3.2 million people in 75 countries were known to be stateless, having been registered or counted by governments.
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The government's plan has been called ineffective and purely symbolic since it is impossible to send a stateless person out of the country.
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"That legal protection exists, so states that are stripping people of nationality and leaving them stateless are violating that law," Mr. Baluarte said.
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In 2012, a man named Ahmed Abdelkhaleq was expelled from the United Arab Emirates for his activism defending the rights of stateless people.
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Sometimes called "legal ghosts", stateless people are deprived of basic rights from education to employment and vulnerable to exploitation, violence and arbitrary detention.
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Nearly 2150,2000 stateless people live in Latvia and 21980,225 in Estonia, mainly ethnic Russians who have trouble obtaining citizenship and often face discrimination.
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EUROPE: Tens of thousands of stateless Roma - an ethnic group with origins in India - are thought to live in central and eastern Europe.
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"There is a unique political will to eradicate stateless in West Africa," UNHCR senior regional protection officer Emmanuelle Mitte told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
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The group says that stateless people in Thailand are unable to vote, buy land, seek legal employment, work in certain occupations or travel freely.
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Under Australian law, a person can only be stripped of their citizenship if they are dual citizens, thereby preventing people from being made stateless.
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Stateless, I eventually left Turkey to cross the Mediterranean to Greece – a crossing that has already taken more than 400 lives this year alone.
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Many are stateless as a 1982 law restricts citizenship for the Rohingya and other minorities not considered members of one of Myanmar's "national races".
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Stateless, with little access to education, jobs or healthcare, their only options were trading opium or walking to the nearest town for odd jobs.
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Zayn Hussein Abu Zubaydah, 46, is a stateless Palestinian refugee who was born in Saudi Arabia, one of ten siblings, to middle class parents.
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The country does not recognize the stateless Rohingya as an ethnic group with its own identity and considers them as illegal immigrants from Bangladesh.
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From then until January 2017, he lived as a stateless person, trapped in the UAE; unable to get a job as an illegal citizen.
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But when he tried to renew that passport the third country refused and he applied for formal recognition as a stateless person in Bulgaria.
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He helped found the team in early 2100 as a way to enhance identity among one of the world's largest stateless populations through sport.
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And it gives carte blanche to the military to pursue what is now an unwinnable war without end against a faceless and stateless enemy.
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But since the government has not specifically explained what rights stateless people have, the future of the Rohingya in the country remains in flux.
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S.K.'s story is one of thousands from people who are left facing deterorating conditions and reported starvation while they wait in stateless limbo.
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The convention does, though, give exemptions to states whose national laws, at the time of signing, gave them the right to make someone stateless.
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During one interview, Trump stated that he would consider using nuclear weapons against ISIS, the stateless terrorist entity with a footprint in several states.
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The Kurds are a stateless people who live primarily in Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey, although some Kurds live in Europe and North America.
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The rest of Apple's income that was not recognized and taxed in Ireland could be put in other corporate structures that were effectively stateless.
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"There is a risk that many IS orphans will become stateless and fall through the cracks of repatriation and rehabilitation efforts," the report said.
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Cambodia is not a signatory of the 1954 Stateless Persons Convention that grants the right to education, employment, housing, travel documents and administrative assistance.
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He, Jolie and UNHCR officials had a productive meeting on Saturday morning, Duque said, including a discussion about how to nationalize the stateless children.
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But most of the home countries do not want the caliphate's former residents back, so they are stuck here, in a stateless, unstable territory.
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On Wednesday, the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi expressed concerns that the Assam exercise could result in some people being made stateless.
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This, combined with the Indian government's recent citizenship check that left about 2 million Muslims in India effectively stateless, has left Indian citizens reeling.
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But a lawyer for Ms. Begum, who recently gave birth to a baby boy, said the move would render the British-born woman stateless.
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The Rohingya are among an estimated 10 to 15 million stateless people in the world who are not recognized as citizens of any country.
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NEPAL: Although Nepal says it does not have a stateless population, experts on statelessness believe many people, possibly hundreds of thousands, may be affected.
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"Current conditions in Myanmar's Rakhine state are not conducive for safe, dignified and sustainable return of stateless Rohingya refugees," said UNHCR spokesman Andrej Mahecic.
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He was born in Saudi Arabia to a stateless family of Palestinian origin, meaning that has no citizenship; he carries identification documents issued by Egypt.
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India has published the final citizenship list in the Indian state of Assam, excluding nearly two million people amid fears they could be rendered stateless.
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"They will be having no Kenyan status and they don't belong to Somalia, so they are basically becoming stateless," said Dahiye, the MP for Dadaab.
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She described Nepal as "the land of Everest ... and stateless children" and said countries with similar laws were wasting the talents of their young people.
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"Progress on citizenship for the stateless Rohingya is absolutely crucial, as will be community reconciliation, and investment in inclusive development benefiting all communities," Grandi said.
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Communication is stateless; if Alice thinks her key has been compromised, she can simply generate a new key pair and register the new public key.
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"In a school uniform, stateless children can appear and feel undifferentiated to Thai citizen students," said Janepicha Cheva-Isarakul at the Victoria University of Wellington.
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The European Network on Statelessness (ENS), an advocacy group, published a report on Monday criticizing Bulgaria for "serious shortcomings" in its treatment of stateless people.
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As even the tax framework acknowledges, tax reform here will be all about imposing a minimum tax as a floor on companies' stateless income planning.
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Apple also took issue with the assertion that the "head office" was stateless; the unit is, it says, taxable in America (in theory at least).
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The new numbers represent roughly a third of the country's Rohingya people, a stateless Muslim minority, although the Myanmar government doesn't release exact population figures.
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Constantine has spent a decade photographing stateless communities around the world including the Rohingya in Myanmar, the Roma in Europe and the Bidoon in Kuwait.
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In 2400, journalist Greg Constantine traveled to the region for the Pulitzer Center to report on the Rohingya, a stateless people caught between two countries.
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Straddling the border between Myanmar and Bangladesh, the Rohingya are effectively stateless as the two governments maintain their rightful home is in the other country.
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Precisely because they were stateless, their labor did not produce many stone monuments, and their stories did not enter the annals of the early historians.
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The violence this month has largely affected members of the Rohingya ethnic group, a stateless Muslim minority with roughly one million members in Rakhine State.
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We need a new terminology that accurately describes the stateless realm where Mohammed Emwazi and Patrick Crusius (and Dylann Roof and a hundred others) reside.
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Two million people live in Gaza, most of them stateless descendants of refugees from homes in what is now Israel at its founding in 1948.
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It bars non-citizens - a category that includes the largely stateless Muslim Rohingya minority - from protesting and lists criminal penalties for "disturbing" or "annoying" people.
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The British government revoked the citizenship of a teenager Tuesday who ran away to join ISIS — a decision her family's lawyer says leaves her stateless.
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This would provide little reassurance to the refugees, who are mostly stateless and denied citizenship rights by Myanmar, which views them as interlopers from Bangladesh.
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Some estimates: Internally Displaced People, 2015: 41,000,000+ Refugees/persons of concern in other countries, 2015: 49, 800,000+ (This includes people seeking Asylum) Stateless, 2015: 0003,000,000+.
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A large percentage of the rest were from Romania or from the former Yugoslavia, and are considered stateless, "so they can't be expelled," he said.
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That said, I find it difficult for a tech company to position itself as a stateless platform while also largely adhering to Western value structures.
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When boats are not registered to a country or flying a country's flag, they are considered stateless, and maritime laws allow U.S. officials to board.
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Rohingyas need special permission to leave Cox's Bazar and, because the Rohingya are technically stateless, there's no guarantee the Bangladeshi police will file a report.
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Mexico's National Institute of Migration rejects this view, saying it has given more than 205 permanent resident visas to so-called "stateless" migrants since Nov.
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With her project, The Passport, Thana Faroq documents the lives not just of stateless individuals, but also her own escaping conflict and later settling abroad.
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I am a Jewish immigrant who came here as part of a family that was stateless, and my deep patriotism is rooted in that experience.
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The reality is that you have a very strong and powerful Israeli state using its strength in a very unfair way against a stateless people.
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In 2008 the United Arab Emirates came up with a novel solution to their bidoon "problem" — the presence of thousands of stateless persons within their territories.
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There are no reliable data on how many people are stateless in Iran but Khanna said one government survey showed 49,000 children lacked proof of nationality.
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Two United Nations treaties were created protecting the right to citizenship, but today an estimated 10 to 15 million people around the globe are considered stateless.
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ARSA, which emerged with attacks on border posts in 2016, is focused on winning rights for Rohingya, the mostly stateless Muslim minority long persecuted in Myanmar.
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Gurung said stateless people suffered a "tsunami of injustices" - they cannot travel, open bank accounts, get a scooter license or even a mobile phone sim card.
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The party was also criticized for not paying attention to the plight of the Rohingya, a stateless Muslim minority not recognized nor wanted by Myanmar's government.
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Instead, revoking birthright citizenship would balloon the nation's undocumented population, creating a new class of disenfranchised, stateless people that would face deep economic and integration challenges.
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That's the number of people who were forcibly displaced from their homes in 2016, including refugees, internally displaced persons (IDPs), stateless persons, returnees, and asylum seekers.
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Many people in Myanmar regard the largely stateless Rohingya as illegal immigrants from Bangladesh, and they are excluded from the 135 "national races" recognized by law.
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Troops have poured into the region in response to the attacks, in which assailants believed to be from the mostly stateless Rohingya group killed nine policemen.
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Meanwhile, in Thailand, which has one of the world's largest stateless populations, UNHCR said 23,000 people have been given Thai nationality over the last four years.
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The image is part of a show at London's prestigious Saatchi Gallery called "Nowhere People UK" – the first exhibition to focus on Britain's invisible stateless people.
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The news cycle brings stories of deaths in custody and drownings at sea; asylum seekers are kept on boats, held at bay in a limbo, stateless.
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He's taken on hefty diplomatic tasks, such as confronting Myanmar's civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi over the treatment of her country's stateless Rohingya Muslim population.
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If Ireland wants to create rules that allow for stateless entities not to pay taxes anywhere, up until now that has been Ireland's decision to make.
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The Thai government has worked to reduce statelessness in recent years — more than 27,000 stateless people have been granted Thai citizenship since 2011, according to UNHCR.
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Such a move would institutionalize the West Bank's dual legal systems, with Palestinians remaining in permanent status of stateless people, while Israelis enjoy full citizenship rights.
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Nor was the belief that the Middle East's leaders and peoples would accept indefinitely an Israeli regional nuclear monopoly, or that Palestinians deserved to be stateless.
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Ko Ni was returning from Indonesia, where Myanmar government officials and Muslim leaders, including the mostly stateless Rohingya, were discussing issues of reconciliation with Indonesian counterparts.
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Rohingyas, who trace their roots back generations in Myanmar, are a stateless minority who have mostly been stripped of their citizenship in the predominantly Buddhist country.
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"Life is the same but now more people know about me," said Ekkapol, who founded a new soccer team, Ekkapol Academy, for underpriviledged and stateless children.
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UNHCR chief Filippo Grandi praised Kyrgyzstan - an ex-Soviet republic in Central Asia - for cutting its stateless population from about 13,700 to zero in five years.
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Last month Duque announced Colombia would give citizenship to more than 24,000 children born in the country to Venezuelan parents, to prevent them from being stateless.
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Syrians also had the best chance of winning asylum, with over 98 percent of applications receiving a positive reply, followed by Eritreans and stateless asylum-seekers.
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That Israel can continue enjoying economic growth, regional military dominance and improving foreign relations despite its military control over the lives of millions of stateless Palestinians.
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Although the Rohingya consider themselves to be just one of many ethnic minorities living in Myanmar, most have been stripped of their citizenship and are stateless.
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The thought that the administration wants to deny the chance they gave my mom to thousands of similarly stateless people today makes me feel physically ill.
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The thought that the administration wants to deny the chance they gave my mom to thousands of similarly stateless people today makes me feel physically ill.
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A person may be stateless as a result of discrimination based on ethnicity, religion or gender, the transfer of territory between states, or conflicting nationality laws.
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Kenya hopes to get a clearer picture of its stateless population when the results of a national census conducted in August are made public next year.
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Nearly all Rohingya have been denied citizenship since 1982, effectively rendering the group stateless, and they are also denied freedom of movement and other basic rights.
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In Ms. Begum's case, Britain's Home Office informed her family that it intended to revoke her citizenship, according to a family lawyer, effectively rendering her stateless.
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Rights monitors accused Myanmar's military of atrocities, including killings, mass rape and arson, against the stateless Rohingya during so-called clearance operations after Rohingya militants' Aug.
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"Countries are looking to protect stateless people and reform legislation so no one is excluded from obtaining nationality," she said by phone from the event in Gambia.
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Buddhist-majority Myanmar and Bangladesh reached an agreement late last year on the repatriation of Rohingya, most of whom are stateless and subjected to restrictions in Myanmar.
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Those kids are stateless, but when they leave (the hospital) and recover, I could take them through the process of documents and through the official government process.
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That especially includes the estimated 19843 families in the city who are stateless, lacking citizenship with any country, after entering the country through Afghanistan in the 1980s.
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Nepalese single mother Deepti Gurung told the conference in The Hague how her daughters Neha and Nikita were left stateless because they could not inherit her citizenship.
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Human rights groups also remain deeply concerned about the oppression of the Rohingya Muslim minority, who remain stateless and largely confined to camps near Myanmar's western coast.
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Melanie Khanna, head of the U.N. refugee agency's section on statelessness, urged the United States to set up a stateless determination procedure to help those like Ekaterina.
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In many cases, these laws leave children unable to claim the same citizenship as their mother or father, effectively rendering them stateless and severely lacking in rights.
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The Rohingya are stateless, with Myanmar refusing to grant them citizenship, and the hundreds of thousands of refugees now in Bangladesh say they won't return without citizenship.
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Although the law was reformed later and Indonesians can reacquire their citizenship, many people do not formally apply for it and remain stateless, according to the UNHCR.
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Stateless people typically are denied the protections of the laws of the nation, limited in their access to labor markets, and restricted from the social safety net.
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A giant mural dedicated to the stateless refugee team -- originally from South Sudan, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia and Syria -- appeared on the streets of Rio.
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Two million Palestinians live in Gaza, most of them stateless descendants of people who fled or were driven from homes in Israel at its founding in 1948.
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It is unclear what will happen to these "illegals" who are now essentially stateless, much like the Rohingya who fled Myanmar and live in camps in Bangladesh.
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A government investigation had outed him, along with dozens of his classmates, as a Rohingya refugee, a member of the mostly stateless Muslim minority from neighboring Myanmar.
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China's proposal has no guarantee that all of the Rohingya would be allowed to return home, let alone secure recognition or citizenship (most Rohingya are considered "stateless").
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Ekkapol, who is from a minority group in Myanmar, was granted Thai citizenship after the rescue, as were several of the rescued boys who were also stateless.
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While nations are not permitted under international law to deprive individuals of citizenship if it is likely to render them stateless, Letts has dual British-Canadian citizenship.
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Many people are also upset about the National Register of Citizens, a citizenship review process that has already left nearly two million people in Assam potentially stateless.
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Stateless people are often denied education and medical care, cannot travel, open a bank account, marry or even get a death certificate when they die, she said.
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More specifically, the CAA comes after the National Register of Citizens (NRC) in the northeastern state of Assam, which rendered 1.9 million people stateless several years back.
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During Monday's parliament debate, opposition politician Asaduddin Owaisi ripped up a copy of the bill, calling it a move by the Modi government to render Muslims "stateless".
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These stateless people could find themselves incarcerated in Indian detention centers, or flee to nearby nations, one of which — Bangladesh — is already struggling with a refugee crisis.
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About 69,000 Rohingyas have fled to Bangladesh since October, straining relations between the two neighbors who each see the stateless Muslim minority as the other nation's problem.
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Rights monitors have accused Myanmar's military of atrocities, including killings, mass rape and arson, against the stateless Rohingya during so-called clearance operations after Rohingya militants' Aug.
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"We are deeply concerned about the U.S. deal," Imran Mohammad, 22, a stateless man from the Rohingya ethnic minority in Myanmar, told Reuters by telephone from Manus Island.
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It aims to improve the stateless Rohinygas' access to public services, such as hospitals, which is often difficult, as well as restoring their dignity, the project's founders said.
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Correction: A previous headline of this story referenced those in displacement camps and villages in Rakhine as refugees, when in fact they are stateless or internally displaced people.
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He urged Malaysia to reassess its methods for measuring poverty and take into account vulnerable groups excluded from the data such as stateless families, migrant workers, and refugees.
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Given his age and questions over his health and also a possible lack of proof, it is unclear whether German authorities will attempt to prosecute the stateless pensioner.
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The longer it kicks the can down the road, says Mr Erdogan, the bigger the risk that the refugees will become a permanent, stateless underclass, susceptible to radicalisation.
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Many in the Buddhist majority country regard the largely stateless Rohingya as illegal immigrants from Bangladesh, and they are not among the 135 ethnic groups recognized by law.
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She said Britain's long history of internationalism is a source of its economic strength and was grateful that as a stateless child she could become a British citizen.
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Dozens of the stateless Rohingya minority have been killed and tens of thousands displaced since October, when a fresh bout of state-sponsored violence hit restive Rakhine State.
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Lastly, the center will promote innovative, tech-focused uses of this information in order to help refugees, internally displaced persons, stateless people, returnees, asylum-seekers, and host populations.
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New York City is also home to the artist Christo, who arrived here in 1964 after years of living as a stateless refugee in Prague, Vienna and Paris.
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Most of them are stateless as they cannot obtain Pakistani identity cards, essential for opening bank accounts, enrolling into school, using public hospitals, and even getting a job.
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Britain is one of only a handful of countries to have set up a procedure to identify stateless people, and provide them with a route to legal residency.
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The pair work for the Doi Tung Development Project, one of Thailand's oldest and most established social enterprises, which employs hill tribe communities, many of whom are stateless.
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As a result of this latest purge, which began in August, some 650,000 Rohingya, who are a stateless Muslim minority, have fled across the border to neighboring Bangladesh.
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It understands the threat that stateless money poses to capital controls and other mechanisms of power over a national economy, as well as the prevalence of illegal activity.
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The Kurdish authorities that administer this stateless war zone do not want them either, and say it is not their job to indefinitely detain citizens of other countries.
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The law is also closely linked to another controversial initiative: the National Registry of Citizens, a citizenship list that could potentially leave millions of people, primarily Muslims, stateless.
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Some on the Israeli right foresee a system in which most Palestinians will remain stateless indefinitely, living under a set of laws different from those governing Israeli citizens.
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Nearly all the more than 257 million Rohingya who lived in Myanmar before the recent exodus are stateless, despite many tracing their families in the country for generations.
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Arendt was one of the first major political thinkers to warn that the ever-increasing numbers of stateless persons and refugees would continue to be an intractable problem.
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In that time, hundreds of thousands of Rohingya people have been left effectively stateless and many have had to seek refuge in camps along the border with Bangladesh.
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For Mr. Kafe, whose Nubian forbears were brought from Sudan to Kenya by the British colonial authorities over a century ago, the government's plan risks rendering him stateless.
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Various departments of the United Nations now have blockchain experiments looking to tackle climate change, the delivery of humanitarian aid and the identity challenges faced by stateless people.
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The world's biggest stateless population are the Rohingya, hundreds of thousands of whom have sought safety in Bangladesh after fleeing Myanmar which does not recognise them as citizens.
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Their children aren't "legal" since the Bahamas does not give birthright citizenship to the offspring of undocumented residents, rendering many stateless and constantly living in fear of deportation.
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Around two million of Assam's population of 33 million — a mix of Hindus and Muslims — failed to pass the test, and these people now risk being rendered stateless.
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The most pressing task is to focus on a speedy start to repatriating the refugees, he said, without using the word 'Rohingya' - who are mostly stateless in Myanmar.
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Most of the foreigners who flocked to the caliphate risk becoming stateless, unwanted by the countries they fled and considered enemy combatants by the countries they are in.
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IRAQ: There are about 47,500 stateless people who include Bidoon, Palestinian refugees and Faili Kurds, an ethnic group that historically live both sides of the Iraq-Iran border.
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Mr. Fayadh, 35, was born in Saudi Arabia to a stateless family of Palestinian origin and was not known as a dissident, according to Ben Hubbard of The Times.
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Human rights monitors and members of the mostly stateless Rohingya community say troops have shot civilians on sight, raped Rohingya women and looted and burned homes during the operation.
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Katy Keene is set years after the events of Riverdale, and takes place in New York City as opposed to the stateless town that is Archie and Jughead's home.
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West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has accused the BJP of trying to make millions of people stateless for political reasons and warned of a "bloodbath" and "civil war".
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I am not attempting to place my fear and vulnerability in the same register as the one experienced by the undocumented and their families, by refugees and the stateless.
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A Brooklyn bodega owner, a naturalized citizen from Yemen, spent more than two years in stateless limbo after the United States Embassy in Sana confiscated his passport in 133.
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According to Pascal Brice, head of the French Office for the Protection of Refugees and the Stateless (OFPRA), 70% of those who applied recently from Calais were given asylum.
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Microsoft today removed the "preview" label from Azure Service Fabric, its service for building and running both stateful and stateless Docker-based microservices in the cloud and on-premises.
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This status means they are stateless (since they are not Israeli citizens) and cannot vote in national elections, all while being taxed and governed by the state of Israel.
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The plan was mainly aimed at the stateless Bidoon people of Kuwait and United Arab Emirates who, for a variety of reasons, do not have citizenship of any country.
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Many stateless people in Thailand are from areas where boundaries between its four neighboring countries have changed, or who have crossed the border for work or a better life.
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She gave her account to reporters during a government-organised trip to the troubled north of Myanmar's Rakhine State, where most people belong to the stateless Rohingya Muslim minority.
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Some countries, including Brazil, the Netherlands and Britain, have set up procedures which provide stateless people with a way to legalize their residence so they can rebuild their lives.
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The plight of the stateless Rohingya, of whom some 1.1 million live in apartheid-like conditions in Rakhine, has long been a source of friction between Myanmar and Bangladesh.
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The UN estimates that, in just over one week, more than 70,000 Rohingya -- a stateless, ethnic Muslim minority who largely inhabit Myanmar's western Rakhine state -- have fled escalating violence.
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"What for me was so eye-opening was the sheer sense of rejection and isolation that stateless people in the UK expressed to me," said American photographer Greg Constantine.
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The Rohingya, considered to be among the world's most persecuted people, are denied the right to citizenship in Myanmar despite having lived there for generations, making them effectively stateless.
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The Rohingya are essentially stateless people, as the Burmese government refuses to recognize them as citizens — despite the fact that the Rohingya people have lived in Burma for generations.
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When I became an adult, it finally hit me that during those six months of being stateless, they, just like other migrants, lost the ability to protect their children.
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Chief prosecutors in every Australian state signed onto a letter saying the legislation should be handled with delicacy, raising concerns that it could leave people stateless or detained indefinitely.
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Against these challenges, the secretary general post has only limited power, and its diplomatic influence is even more attenuated with stateless terrorist groups and insurgencies that cross international borders.
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In another case, USCIS tried to unlawfully expand the NSEERS requirement to a Palestinian by trying to say he was a Jordanian national even though he was officially stateless.
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We are often seduced by the narrative of the righteous underdog, and who better represents this than a stateless people attacked by their government for striving for their freedom?
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The United States, Canada and the European Union have placed targeted sanctions on Myanmar military officers believed to have directed the violence against the largely stateless Rohingya last year.
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As Mr. Trump's director of the Central Intelligence Agency, Mike Pompeo branded WikiLeaks a stateless hostile intelligence unit eager to do the bidding of Russia and other American adversaries.
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Echoes of the majoritarian rhetoric preceding the ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya can be heard in India as four million, mostly Bengali-origin Muslims, have been effectively turned stateless.
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The delegation to Muslim-majority Indonesia - billed as an opportunity to share experiences of national reconciliation - included several Myanmar Muslim leaders, some belonging to the mostly stateless Rohingya minority.
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Also in August, Mr. Modi aggressively escalated a program of citizenship tests in the northeastern state of Assam, leaving nearly two million people, many of them Muslims, potentially stateless.
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After languishing in detention centers or camps for more than a year, the stateless minors were granted refugee status by the United Nations and flown to the United States.
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Stateless, largely destitute and shellshocked, the Romanovs had to learn to live without the country whose stewardship had been their duty for three centuries — and mourn those left behind.
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Kenya set a precedent two years ago when it awarded citizenship to another stateless group, the Makonde, originally from Mozambique, ending 80 years of statelessness for its 8,000 people.
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That does not include the expense of building detention centres such as Assam's growing archipelago of prison camps, to house thousands of people judged stateless and stripped of rights.
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His brief is that Myanmar's Muslim population (which he refuses to refer to as Rohingya, which is how the stateless people refer to themselves) represents a mechanics of evil.
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Myanmar's security forces have also orchestrated a campaign of what the United Nations calls ethnic cleansing against Rohingya Muslims, a mostly stateless ethnic group, in far western Rakhine State.
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The stateless people who remain in the Dominican Republic have little hope of living normal lives without valid IDs, even if they don't attract the attention of the authorities.
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The Rohingya are a stateless ethnic minority who regularly face persecution -- the official position of Myanmar's government doesn't recognize the term "Rohingya" and instead says they are illegal Bengali migrants.
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Spirited away in the Kindertransport in 1939, while most of his family were killed in Buchenwald, he became a stateless person, wandering round England while filling his brain with Trotsky.
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Spain, the Netherlands, Israel, Iraq, Tunisia, Australia, Taiwan, Poland, the "stateless" NSK Pavilion and the Diaspora Pavilion are among the many exhibitions dealing with social issues, from housing to migration.
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About two million Palestinians are packed into the Gaza Strip, mainly stateless descendants of refugees who fled or were driven from homes in Israel when it was founded in 1948.
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Yet they would still effectively be the ones targeted: international law bans making someone stateless, so the government could not take away the passport of someone with sole French nationality.
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In Estonia, and in particular in Narva, there are between 170,000 to 90,000 "grey passport" or "Alien's passport," people who didn't take the Estonian citizenship after independence and remain stateless.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads In 2016, Ahmad Hammoud's artwork "Passport for the Stateless"(2016) was shipped from an exhibition in Dubai back to the artist's studio in Cairo.
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ARSA, which emerged with attacks on border posts in Myanmar's Rakhine state in 2016, is focused on winning rights for Rohingya, the mostly stateless Muslim minority long persecuted in Myanmar.
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Since 2005, Thailand has given all stateless persons access to basic education and health care, and pledged to develop a screening system to curb trafficking, which is a major risk.
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State hospitals now issue birth certificates to all children born in Thailand, and there are more job options for stateless people who were once limited to 27 low-skilled occupations.
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Changes in the citizenship laws in 2016 opened up a path for some 80,000 stateless persons, with alternate requirements such as loyalty to the king, good conduct and educational achievement.
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Related: Backed By China, a Massive Narco-Army Angles for More Power in Myanmar Stripped of their citizenship rights in 1982, the minority are among the world's largest stateless populations.
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Bulgaria introduced a procedure a couple of years ago to allow stateless people to apply for formal recognition of their status, potentially leading to residence rights and a travel document.
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A heavy-handed security operation in Rakhine state, a region home to many Rohingya Muslims, has led to an estimated 69,000 from the largely stateless community fleeing into neighbouring Bangladesh.
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Human Rights Watch (HRW) highlighted the lack of an official policy for people who might eventually be excluded from of the final list, saying it could effectively render them stateless.
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Few ethnic groups on earth have been locked into such hopeless logic, marooned on an international border, unwanted by either side, weary, traumatized, desperately stateless, their very origins in dispute.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia will ban the entry of foreign nationals and stateless people from March 18 to May 1 in response to the coronavirus outbreak, the government said on Monday.
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The Belgian authorities gave refugee status to 281 of the 288 Salvadoran asylum seekers whose cases were processed last year, according to the country's office for refugees and stateless persons.
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Mr. Assange has long had a knack for celebrity, and as a tech-savvy, global, almost stateless figure, he captured the new influence the internet could give to individual citizens.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia will ban the entry of foreign nationals and stateless people from March 18 to May 1 in response to the coronavirus outbreak, the government said on Monday.
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The United States has abandoned the Kurds — a stateless people who live in parts of Turkey, Iraq, Syria, Armenia and Iran — on numerous occasions in just the past half century.
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Wa Lone, 31, and Kyaw Soe Oo, 27, had covered the crisis in western Rakhine state that has driven 655,000 stateless Rohingya Muslims across the border to Bangladesh since August.
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Elsewhere in India, after six years of fearful silence, Muslim community organizations, afraid that they could be rendered stateless, stepped out to protest in towns and cities across the country.
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Muslim Rohingyas in Buddhist-majority Myanmar form the world's biggest stateless minority, with some 600,000 having fled violence and repression since late August and taken refuge in Bangladesh, it said.
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Before the civil war, there were an estimated 25,222 stateless Kurds in Syria, many of whom were promised nationality by President Bashar al-Assad in reaction to the 25 uprising.
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COLOMBIA: Up to 25,000 children born to Venezuelan parents who have fled to Colombia amid a political and economic crisis in their homeland may be stateless or are at risk.
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"A mass trial cannot produce a just result and rendering people stateless in a mass trial is a clear violation of international law," institute Director of Advocacy Sayed Ahmed Alwadaei said.
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The number of stateless children born to refugees is growing in Hong Kong, where claims from asylum seekers have more than tripled in the last two years, alarming residents and lawmakers.
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The functional programming model is (mostly) stateless, meaning that sections of software can more easily and efficiently be run in parallel across different CPU cores or machines, without needing complex synchronization.
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Buddhist-majority Myanmar rejects accusations by refugees and rights groups that its armed forces have violated the rights of the mostly stateless Rohingya, saying the army and police are fighting "terrorists".
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" But it has stressed that under the UNHCR 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness "there is a need (in Pakistan) to identify stateless persons and attend to their protection needs.
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"SQL is stateless so it isn't hard to work with, but making data science serverless is hard because it has states," Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi explained to me in an interview.
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Sometimes referred to as "legal ghosts", stateless people are not recognized as nationals by any country and as such, they are deprived of the basic rights most people take for granted.
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Although Blazer seems foolish, and Alice foolhardy, Amar is the one whose situation is reduced to the truly surreal as he is left to languish in a mirrored and stateless cell.
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It was Adul, the stateless descendant of a Wa ethnic tribal branch once known for headhunting, who played a critical role in the rescue, acting as interpreter for the British divers.
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The government has revoked the Ukrainian citizenship it granted him in better days of his relationship with Mr. Poroshenko, and has recently taken to threatening to deport the now-stateless statesman.
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Later on Monday a U.N mandated fact-finding mission will release a report on the crackdown, which triggered the exodus of more than 700,000 stateless Muslim Rohingya, according to U.N. agencies.
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Ms. Begum has asked to return for the sake of her newborn son, and British law prevents the government from stripping someone's citizenship if doing so would render the person stateless.
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Mr. Amri's life and odyssey underscore a vexing problem, common in Europe: how to handle hundreds of thousands of virtually stateless wanderers who are either unwilling or unable to return home.
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Last week, I noted that other U.S. administrations had sold out the stateless Kurdish people of Iraq and Syria, but that only Trump lacked any apparent geopolitical aim in doing so.
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Stateless people often lack documentation necessary to attend school, open a bank account, get a job, passport or mobile phone, or enter government buildings, according to the U.N. refugee agency (UNHCR).
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But the three days of hearings, which ended on Thursday, had a narrower objective than deciding whether Myanmar's treatment of the mostly stateless minority group constitutes the gravest of international crimes.
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As a native ethnic minority whom the government considers illegal, the Rohingya of Myanmar — who now make up one-tenth of the world's stateless people — are particularly vulnerable to population swaps.
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Other documents show recent Comoran passport recipients aren't just Emirati-born stateless people but also individuals born in Burma, Bangladesh, Iran and other countries, as well as a handful of Westerners.
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Today, tens of thousands of stateless Rohingya people remain trapped in limbo in Malaysia—unable to legally work or return home, while facing years-long waits for potential resettlement by UNHCR.
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But ending birthright citizenship would still probably create a new class of stateless people who were either born to undocumented parents or who would have difficulty providing their statuses through paperwork.
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Islamic State members also brought a large number of children into their zone of control or bore babies who are now orphaned, destitute or even stateless, and whose future is uncertain.
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Jawad Fairooz, a former Bahraini MP who was rendered stateless after being stripped of his nationality in 2012, said revoking citizenship should never be used as a political tool or a punishment.
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Human rights monitors have accused Myanmar's military of atrocities, including mass rape, against the stateless Rohingya during so-called clearance operations following insurgent attacks on 30 police posts and an army base.
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Some 65,000 Rohingya Muslims have been forced out of Myanmar and into Bangladesh since October, when military "clearance operations" began to root out suspected terrorists within the 1 million strong stateless group.
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However, since it's sort of stateless – AR can be applied to any number of existing pieces of hardware and software – people are spinning interesting and increasingly wild ideas for Apple's AR implementation.
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More than 100 people were killed in violence in the northwestern state in 2012, and some 125,000 Rohingya Muslims, who are stateless, took refuge in camps where their movements are severely restricted.
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Kubernetes to this point has been great at scaling simpler, stateless applications, Philips explained, but when it comes to more complex stateful applications, it required this heavy scripting to make it work.
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Although she does not oversee the military, Suu Kyi has been criticized for failing to stand up for the more than 1 million stateless Rohingya Muslims in the western state of Rakhine.
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Ardun, the stateless 14-year-old who coordinated with the team's rescuers because he was the only one who spoke English, said the experience had taught him the consequences of acting carelessly.
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At least 86 people have been killed, according to state media, and the United Nations has estimated 27,000 members of the largely stateless Rohingya minority have fled across the border to Bangladesh.
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Although the government, under criticism, amended the bill to remove any reference to dual citizens, it technically can only apply to them as France cannot render any citizen stateless under international law.
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Many of the stateless Indonesia descendants living in southern Mindanao interviewed in a 2014 UNHCR mapping study said they struggle with daily challenges including access to employment, livelihoods, education and clean water.
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A UN convention from 1961 goes further, banning the withdrawal of citizenship based on race, religion or politics, and also banning it in cases where doing so would leave a person stateless.
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I extended my studies for as long as I could, because my stateless status, conferred by the travel documents the High Commission distributed to refugees, gave me little hope of finding work.
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More than 100 people were killed in violence in the western state in 2012, and some 125,000 Rohingya Muslims, who are stateless, took refuge in camps where their movements are severely restricted.
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The calls come as Bangladesh delayed the repatriation of the largely stateless Rohingya to Myanmar as the process of compiling and verifying the list of people to be sent back was incomplete.
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This doesn't figure include the estimated 1.1 million Rohingya Muslims, who are stateless as Myanmar refuses to recognize them as citizens, and they are not officially included in Myanmar's 2014 census data.
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Three of the boys and Ekapol were considered stateless, even though they were born in Thailand, until local authorities checked their qualifications, including birth certificates, and approved their requests for Thai citizenship.
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Dirk Van den Bulck, Belgium's commissioner for refugees and stateless persons, said his country considered gang victims to be unable to receive protection from the Salvadoran government and therefore eligible for asylum.
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As Aronson makes clear, much of the credit goes to Ekapon Jantawong, the assistant coach known as Ek. Born in Burma, Ek was stateless, like three of the boys on his team.
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The last 50 known stateless people, including 15 children, were issued with birth certificates and passports at a ceremony on Thursday in Bishkek, capital of the mountainous landlocked country of 6 million.
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Critics of Mr. Trump's comments on Wednesday argued that World War II combatant status was a bizarre subject to invoke, especially since the Kurds were — and are — stateless and not a monolith.
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The Turkish offensive deals yet another blow to an ethnic group left stateless when the Ottoman Empire collapsed a century ago and the Kurds were scattered between Syria, Iraq, Iran and Turkey.
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"The Quds Force represents the world's most powerful Shia-dominated nation, while the Muslim Brotherhood is a stateless but influential political and religious force in the Sunni Muslim world," noted The Intercept.
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Petzold's answer, I think, can be found in the crowded consulates in which Georg waits alongside despairing men and women, caught in the stateless, agonizingly familiar limbo reproduced in today's refugee crisis.
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To listen to Antetokounmpo is to hear echoes of the stateless son of Nigerian immigrants living in Greece, working with his brothers to hawk watches and handbags in the streets of Athens.
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Rohingya Muslims, a stateless minority recognized by neither Myanmar nor neighboring Bangladesh, have expressed their disappointment with State Councilor Aung San Suu Kyi, who they'd hoped would help them after decades of discrimination.
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Comoros struck a deal with the United Arab Emirates in 2008 to sell economic citizenship to stateless Bidoon people living in the Gulf in exchange for cash for the poor Indian Ocean nation.
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It allows "Ukrainian citizens and stateless persons permanently residing in certain districts of Ukraine's Donetsk and Lugansk regions can enter and leave the Russian Federation without applying for visas," according to the statement.
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The social media giant has been accused of acting too slowly to remove content that has fueled violence, especially in the western Rakhine state that is home to the stateless Rohingya Muslim minority.
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The social media giant has been accused of acting too slowly to remove content that has fuelled violence, especially in the western Rakhine state that is home to the stateless Rohingya Muslim minority.
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Since Georgia's government had revoked his Georgian citizenship when he took the Ukrainian one, he is now potentially stateless and stranded in New York, where he fled after falling out with Mr Poroshenko.
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All four had been stateless, and their lack of citizenship deprived them of some basic benefits and rights, including the ability to travel outside of Chiang Rai, the northern province where they live.
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LONDON (Thomson 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.
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Sager Al-Anezi, who is from a large stateless population in Kuwait called the Bidoon, qualified as a doctor after moving to Bulgaria in 2007 and was training to become a heart surgeon.
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As illegal immigrants in Malaysia, they have no access to state education, healthcare, or official work permits, and as one of the world's largest stateless populations, they have no home to return to.
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Human rights monitors and U.N. officials have accused Myanmar's military of atrocities, including mass rape, against the stateless Rohingya during operations that followed insurgent attacks on 30 police posts and an army base.
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Many people in Myanmar regard the largely stateless Rohingya as illegal immigrants from Bangladesh, they are excluded from the 135 "national races" recognized by law, and even using the name is considered inflammatory.
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This situation is further compounded by the fact that there are no countries left ready to accept and offer shelter and a chance of decent life and human dignity to the stateless refugees.
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As a U.S. immigration judge in Los Angeles from 1990 through 2007, I heard and decided thousands of cases in which citizens and stateless persons from foreign countries sought asylum in our nation.
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According to the UN Refugee Agency, by February 2628 there were "28503 million people of concern" who the Myanmar government treated as displaced or stateless, despite a history of living there for centuries.
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The immigration authorities have designated many of the African migrants "stateless" and refused their applications for short-term "humanitarian visas," which would allow them to transit through Mexico without being detained or deported.
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The British Nationality Act of 1981 allows the government revoke somebody's British citizenship if it would be "conducive to the public good" — only so long as that would not make the person stateless.
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Up to a million stateless Rohingya refugees are living in unsanitary and overcrowded conditions in the world's largest refugee camp in Bangladesh, having fled persecution and violence in Myanmar over two years ago.
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"My father was a stateless refugee who, after Auschwitz, was fortunate to be taken in by the United States," wrote one of the hundreds of people who have volunteered to house asylum seekers.
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Yet throughout its first decade of existence, the stateless group caused enormous harm; it carried out back-to-back suicide attacks and killed countless civilians as well as thousands of coalition force members.
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I watched bearded mutualists seeking a stateless society chat with trans social workers building community-based care networks to provide post-surgery care on the patient's terms; autistic philosophers sit down with bioscientists.
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Joyce, Caleb and Sidet Moyo were among the first children from Kenya's stateless Shona group to receive the government-issued certificates, which will give them opportunities and rights long denied to the Shona.
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Horror stories abound: a baby born in Brunei to a Malaysian mother and stateless father has no citizenship, nor does another born in France to a Malaysian mother and a Sri Lankan refugee.
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The judge ruled that although Belgium had a moral duty under the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child to do so, it could not be enforced in the stateless war zone.
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They can turn to the Dominican Republic, which revoked citizenship status from an estimated 200,000 Dominicans of Haitian descent in 2013 amid international outcry, creating the largest stateless population in the Western Hemisphere.
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DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: A 5 court ruling, along with earlier changes to nationality laws aimed at tackling illegal migration, has left many stateless, mostly people of Haitian descent who were born in Dominican Republic.
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Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi dispatched a special envoy to Dhaka this week in a thaw in the troubled relations between the neighbors, who each see the stateless Rohingya as the other's problem.
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More than 700,000 stateless Rohingya Muslims fled from the west of mostly Buddhist Myanmar into Bangladesh from August last year when Rohingya insurgent attacks on the Myanmar security forces triggered a sweeping military crackdown.
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KUALA LUMPUR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Stateless Rohingya who fled Myanmar are set to receive digital identity cards using blockchain technology in a pilot project seeking to help them access services like banking and education.
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The islands arranged a deal with the governments of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Kuwait, who wanted to provide stateless inhabitants there known as the Bidoon with identity documents, but not local citizenship.
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The two countries reached a deal in November to begin repatriation within two months, but it has not started, with stateless Rohingya, who face restrictions on their movements in Myanmar, still crossing the border.
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"You have every right not to be stateless and the way you have been treated shames us all," said Jolie, adding the crisis was the result of decades of discrimination that had gone unaddressed.
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There is no reliable estimate for the number of stateless people although the United Nations has previously said there could be 10 million and launched a campaign in 2014 to end statelessness by 2024.
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Lost in last month's heroic drama rescuing the Thai youth soccer team is that three of the boys and their coach are stateless individuals; that is, they have no citizenship papers from any country.
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"It is possible that the process will arbitrarily deprive people, who have lived in India for decades, of their nationality," Amnesty International said, warning that a significant number of people could be rendered stateless.
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The report, released in August, identified several key issues, including the lack of citizenship for stateless Rohingya Muslims as well as socio-economic challenges facing Rakhine, and police and military action in the state.
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Two million people live in the narrow strip, most stateless descendants of refugees who fled or were driven out of homes during fighting between Jewish and Arab forces at the time of Israel's founding.
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Related: Donald Trump Doesn't Give a Damn About Somali Militants Using Him for Propaganda His lawyers have challenged the move, arguing that it makes Hashi stateless, but so far their appeals have been unsuccessful.
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Around 69,000 Rohingyas have fled to Bangladesh to escape violence in Buddhist-majority Myanmar since October, straining relations between the two neighbors who each see the stateless Muslim minority as the other nation's problem.
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If they are unwilling to do so, then they will continue to fight for meaningless paper victories in international forums, and more generations of stateless Palestinians will continue to suffer from bad leadership decisions.
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Since 2008, Shimizu has been working on another project, also noticed by Tong, known as Green Float, which Shimizu promised could be a solution to accommodate people from nations at risk of becoming stateless.
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But there has been little progress on finding solutions for some of the world's largest stateless populations, which include 692,000 people in Ivory Coast and more than 1 million Rohingya in Myanmar and Bangladesh.
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Yet it says there are nearly half a million stateless people in Thailand, and the International Observatory on Statelessness, an international advocacy group, says the number there is likely two million to 3.5 million.
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Last August, President Ivan Duque said Colombia would give citizenship to 24,000 children born to Venezuelan migrant parents in Colombia, to prevent them from being stateless and less able to access education and healthcare.
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GENEVA (Reuters) - An estimated 433 million people worldwide are stateless, including three million officially, a status that deprives them of an identity, rights, and often jobs, the United Nations refugee agency said on Friday.
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Go deeper: Kashmir crackdown: A warning of nuclear war between India and Pakistan Trump at Howdy Modi rally: India and U.S. must protect our borders India is poised to declare millions of residents stateless
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Rendered stateless by the Myanmar government, which considers them Bangladeshi migrants, and confined to squalid settlements in what is effectively an apartheid state, the Rohingya people are among the most persecuted people on Earth.
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De Chickera said it was crucial that all countries' counter-terrorism policies should not result in more people becoming stateless – which means someone is not recognized as a national by any country in the world.
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The Rohingya Project estimates there are 4 million Rohingya around the world, the majority living outside their ancestral land since Myanmar excluded them from the country's recognized ethnic groups in 1982, effectively rendering them stateless.
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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Scores of Turkish nationals living overseas risk being left stateless after Ankara threatened to strip them of citizenship over alleged links to last year's failed coup, rights campaigners said on Monday.
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"Facebook is being used as a megaphone for hate, pointed directly at vulnerable minorities in Assam, many of whom could be made stateless within months," Alaphia Zoyab, senior campaigner at Avaaz, said in a statement.
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Mr. Valls also emphasized that France would not make anybody stateless, suggesting that the stripping of citizenship would in practice apply only to those with dual citizenship, even if it did not specifically say so.
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Not only is it one of the poorest parts of Myanmar, it is also the home of more than 1m stateless Rohingyas, whom the Burmese authorities regard as illegal immigrants and thus treat with contempt.
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British law allows the government to deprive a person of citizenship when it is conducive to the public good although such decisions should not render the person stateless if they were born as British citizens.
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Global pressure has been mounting on Myanmar - and Suu Kyi - to act after a crackdown in Rakhine state last year drove some 700,000 of the largely stateless Rohingya Muslim minority over the border into Bangladesh.
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The two countries reached a deal in November to begin repatriation within two months, but it has not started, with stateless Rohingya still crossing the border into Bangladesh and the refugee camps at Cox's Bazar.
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The Australian Navy said that one of its ships patrolling the region, the HMAS Darwin, intercepted a small, stateless fishing vessel about 170 nautical miles off the coast of Oman when it made the discovery.
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Many of the DAO's investors are believers, and it will provide an interesting test both of how regulators deal with a stateless fund and, in particular, what happens at such outfits when a dispute arises.
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KUALA LUMPUR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - After years of living in legal limbo, nearly 40,000 stateless people in the southern Philippines have been granted nationality by Manila and Jakarta this year, U.N. officials said on Monday.
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But before we get to that, let's look at the immediate impact: UNWRA, which provides vital life-saving services, health care and education to stateless refugees in the Middle East, is now scrambling for funds.
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The stateless Rohingya have long been a persecuted minority in Myanmar that have been kept in apartheid-like conditions across Rakhine State, where they are subjected to restrictions on movement, medical care and even births.
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Bangladesh is said now to host at least 800,000 stateless Rohingyas on a 100km-long strip of land in the most underdeveloped part of the country (one UN estimate puts the figure at around 1m).
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Pulling US troops from northern Syria essentially left the Kurds, who are considered one of the world's largest stateless nations, vulnerable to Turkish forces, who consider them as a existential terrorist threat to their country.
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People may be registered as stateless if their Thai parents cannot be found, if they come from areas where national borders have changed, or if they live in remote areas without information about nationality procedures.
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Critics on the left complained that the plan would create two classes of citizens, saying it recalled the dark days of the World War II collaborationist government in France, which rendered hundreds of Jews stateless.
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Most are stateless, as they are not citizens in Cambodia or Vietnam, and face "significant barriers" in accessing education, health care, formal employment, banking services, freedom of movement, and owning property, the United Nations said.
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"The international community is fighting to stop a process that is alarmingly on track to potentially render millions of people stateless, and vulnerable to indefinite detention, violence or worse," Mr. Patel said in the statement.
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Many Uighurs are traveling on Chinese passports, and growing numbers of those passports will expire in the coming years, forcing some Uighurs to choose between returning to China or, in effect, living as stateless exiles.
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Colombia said this month it would give citizenship to more than 24,000 children born in the country to Venezuelan migrant parents, to prevent the children from being stateless and less able to access public services.
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"Facebook is being used as a megaphone for hate, pointed directly at vulnerable minorities in Assam, many of whom could be made stateless within months," Alaphia Zoyab, a campaigner at Avaaz, said in a statement.
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For example, one is a stateless ethnic Rohingya person, and efforts to find an appropriate country that was willing to resettle him — and where he was willing to entertain going — proved unsuccessful, the officials said.
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There are an estimated 10-15 million stateless people worldwide who are not recognized as nationals of any country and are deprived of basic rights most people take for granted such as education and healthcare.
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And critics are worried it might pave the way for nationwide citizenship tests, stripping the rights of Muslims who have lived in India for generations but cannot prove their family's lineage -- turning countless people stateless.
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Many who had come from the former Yugoslavia were stateless, and entitled to protection, while others from Romania and Bulgaria were European Union citizens who had the right to freedom of movement within the bloc.
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The U.N. refugee agency said in November that the Rohingya are the biggest minority among an estimated 10 million people worldwide who are stateless, a status that deprives them of an identity, rights, and often jobs.
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The video of the initial discovery made a celebrity out of one of the boys: 14-year-old Adul Sam-on, a stateless refugee from Myanmar who could speak English and helped communicate with the divers.
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The investigation coincides with a debate inside the U.S. government and on Capitol Hill over whether the Trump administration has done enough to hold Myanmar's military to account for brutal violence against the largely stateless Rohingya.
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The country's generals rewrote citizenship laws during the 1980s to deny Rohingya official recognition, effectively creating one of the largest groups of stateless people on the planet, and severely limiting their opportunities and freedom of movement.
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A military crackdown unleashed in the western state of Rakhine last year after attacks by Rohingya militants on police and army posts drove more than 700,000 of the largely stateless minority across the border with Bangladesh.
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In its ruling, the ECHR said a stateless Palestinian, Zayn Al-Abidin Muhammad Husayn, had been held in Lithuania and that authorities there "had known the CIA would subject him to treatment contrary to the Convention".
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Officially stateless, the STS-50 evaded authorities by flying eight different flags at different times, including those of Sierra Leone, Togo, Cambodia, South Korea, Japan, Micronesia and Namibia, the ministry said in a statement on Sunday.
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One of Kapoor's grantees is the International Rescue Committee, which is working with refugees in Uganda - home to more than 1 million people who have fled war in South Sudan - and with stateless Rohingya in Myanmar.
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"Digital tokens like bitcoin, ethereum that are stateless, do not have sovereign endorsement, a qualified issuing body or a country's trust, are not legal currencies and should not be spoken of as digital currencies," he said.
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Instead they are associated with the Confederation of International Football Associations (CONIFA), a non-profit organisation comprised of de facto nations, autonomous regions, minority peoples, stateless populations and nations not affiliated to football's world governing body.
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The laws vary, but in the most restrictive countries, like Iran and Qatar, women cannot pass on their citizenship even if that means their children are left stateless, according to a tally by the United Nations.
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In any given year, trillions of dollars sit safely in the offshore financial world, effectively stateless, protected by legions of well-compensated defenders and a tangle of laws deliberately designed to impede creditors and tax collectors.
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The stream of new refugees, and reports that Myanmar's navy has shot at Bangladeshi fishermen, have further tested historically strained ties between the neighbors, who each see the stateless Rohingya Muslims as the other side's problem.
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The band's young star, the trumpet player Hieronymus (Hiero) Falk, is the child of a German mother and a black father, a bona-fide genius whose parentage renders him a vulnerable, stateless person in his homeland.
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Some members of Mongolia's parliament sought to limit the number of new resident permits granted to foreign or stateless people to 100 per year in a bid to protect domestic jobs in the resource-rich country.
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About a million Rohingya live in the area and are officially stateless, having been denied citizenship by the Myanmar authorities who refuse to even use the term Rohingya, saying the people are actually Bengalis from Bangladesh.
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British law does allow the interior minister to deprive a person of British citizenship when conducive to the public good, though such decisions should not render the person stateless if they were born as British citizens.
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Not up for discussion: her latest role — only recently announced and still under wraps — in "Stateless," a new six-part series about four strangers in an Australian immigration detention center produced by and starring Cate Blanchett.
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Pandey eventually identified the script as an alphabet for Rohingya, the language spoken by the stateless and persecuted Muslim people whose greatest numbers live in western Myanmar, where they've been the victims of brutal ethnic cleansing.
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Last year, Australia revoked the nationality of an Islamic State (IS) recruiter, despite some concerns the move would leave him stateless, while Britain in February stripped a 19-year-old teenager of citizenship on security grounds.
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Hundreds of thousands of people - led by students and Muslim groups - have been demonstrating for more than two months, amid fears that the government will also launch a population register that could leave many Muslims stateless.
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Cozy it is not, yet this Farsi-language station is a spiritual home for Hamid and the stateless musicians and business people who move in and out of the place during the course of a day.
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A check in the northeastern state of Assam required 19923 million residents to show that they or their families lived in India before 1971 — and left two million who could not at risk of becoming stateless.
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The Frenchman, who does not hold any other nationality, could have been stripped of his French passport under the lower house's version but would have thereby been made stateless, making his expulsion from French territory impossible.
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If Ms. Muthana joins the ranks of the stateless, said Mr. Baldwin, the Human Rights Watch legal adviser, that would pose far more risk than bringing her home and investigating her involvement with the Islamic State.
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The first 1,000 people to benefit from the project in 2018 will be members of the diaspora in Malaysia, Bangladesh and Saudi Arabia, decades-old safe havens for the Rohingya, who are the world's biggest stateless minority.
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The democratically elected civilian government of Aung San Suu Kyi says the identity card scheme will give the stateless Muslim minority more rights, but many Rohingya say they fear it is a ruse to deny them citizenship.
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Two of the dhows, all of which were unregistered and therefore stateless, were manufactured by Al Mansoor, an Iranian shipbuilder whose yard is next to an Iranian Revolutionary Guards base, the report said, citing Iranian state records.
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Published ten days before attacks by Muslim-minority Rohingya insurgents triggered a state-led campaign of ethnic cleansing that has pushed more than 500,000 stateless Rohingyas across the border to Bangladesh, Mr Wade's book is exceptionally timely.
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Israel&aposs continued control over millions of stateless Palestinians, and years of failed attempts to resolve the conflict, drive political discourse, fuel societal divisions and draw near-daily criticism from friends and foes alike around the world.
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Moreover, although the government, under criticism, amended the bill to remove any reference to dual citizens, it in effect can only apply to them, as France is bound under international law not to render any citizen stateless.
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They include 650,000 from South Sudan and 500,0003 Muslim Rohingya who have escaped violence in Myanmar for Bangladesh over the past five weeks, many of the latter stateless, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi said.
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In a report last year, Human Rights Watch said the Moken, often dubbed "sea gypsies", face extortion and other abuse by authorities and are particularly vulnerable, because most are stateless as a result of their nomadic lifestyle.
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But the Senate insisted on sticking to the original idea and restricting the proposal to people with dual citizenship, with its leaders saying that the creation of stateless individuals was a "red line" they would not cross.
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By the latest count, more than 389,000 Rohingya Muslims—a ghettoized stateless minority denied citizenship and basic rights by the Myanmar government—have walked, swam, and crawled through jungles and hills and muddy ravines into neighboring Bangladesh.
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Three of the trapped soccer players, as well as their coach, Ekkapol Chantawong, are stateless ethnic minorities, accustomed to slipping across the border to Myanmar one day and returning for a soccer game in Thailand the next.
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One of the boys, a stateless teenager from Myanmar named Adul Sam-on, who spoke English with the divers, recalled on Wednesday how surreal it had been to suddenly hear foreign voices emanate from the watery darkness.
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He was rendered stateless, though he had been granted political asylum in the UK at the time Two other Gulf monarchies, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates, have also used denationalization as a punishment for political dissent.
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He sees his country at war with modernity, one part aligned with the universalism of the Enlightenment, the other decrying the loss of nation and identity in rootless globalization — for which the stateless Jew becomes a symbol.
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Koestler began writing "Darkness at Noon"—under its original title, "The Vicious Circle"—early in 1939, in France, where he had lived as a stateless refugee ever since Hitler came to power in Germany, six years before.
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On its own, being recognized as a tribe does not normally bring specific advantages except in the case of the stateless Makonde people, whose recognition as Tribe No. 43 swiftly brought them the benefit of Kenyan citizenship.
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Other stateless groups — many of whom have lived for generations in their homelands — include many Syrian Kurds, the Karana of Madagascar, Roma in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, and the Pemba of Kenya, the report said.
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This anger is fueled by government propaganda which portrays Rohingya Muslims as an existential threat to Buddhism, and describes the stateless minority as illegal Bengali migrants, despite them tracing back their roots in Myanmar hundreds of years.
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Suu Kyi, whose stature as a Nobel peace prize winner was tarnished by the crisis, has said repatriation of the largely stateless Muslim minority would be based on residency and that it will be "safe and voluntary".
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Stateless people, sometimes referred to as legal ghosts, are not accepted as citizens by any country, which means they are denied basic rights - leaving many unable to work or access healthcare - and are vulnerable to exploitation and traffickers.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia's government is confident it has grounds to strip an alleged Islamic State recruiter of citizenship, a minister said on Wednesday, as questions arose over whether doing so could be illegal and leave the man stateless.
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Over the years, various attempts at creating a Palestinian-style AIPAC have proven ineffective, largely due to divisions and infighting among the still-stateless Palestinians and, compared to Israel, Palestine's second-tier status and financial weight in Washington.
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The navy said personnel from HMAS Darwin had boarded the fishing vessel about 170 nautical miles (313 km) off the coast of Oman to verify which flag it was sailing under and they determined that it was stateless.
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Besides restoring peace for Rohingya to return, Myanmar also had to resolve the issue of their citizenship, having treated them as stateless for decades, the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, told a news conference in Tokyo.
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That is adding hundreds and perhaps thousands of children under the age of 2-1/2 to the growing numbers of children across the Middle East who are stateless – lacking legal recognition as a citizen of any country.
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The Nobel Peace Prize winner had been criticized overseas for not standing up for the largely stateless Rohingya in the western state of Rakhine, where an army crackdown forced more than 688,000 to flee to Bangladesh since Aug.
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Myanmar - where a peace icon is silent in the face of a mass killing The Rohingyas are a persecuted, stateless people who, rights group say, are being systematically eliminated in a full-on offensive by the Myanmar military.
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Officials from the French Office for the Protection of Refugees and Stateless Persons (OFPRA) had gone to Munich in a gesture of solidarity to persuade refugees to settle in France, to help relieve the pressure on the Germans.
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While some are hopeful the stateless Rohingya are beginning to find a political voice, there are also fears that a turn to violence threatens to make solving the refugee crisis through dialogue impossible and could bring more instability.
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The Rohingya, who are a stateless Muslim minority, have have been the target of a sustained campaign of aggression by the Myanmar army, forcing some 23,000 to flee across the border to neighboring Bangladesh since August this year.
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The roughly one million Rohingya in Rakhine are officially stateless, having been denied citizenship by the Myanmar authorities, who call them Bengalis and say they are from Bangladesh, even if their families have been in Myanmar for generations.
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It was a confusing, poorly conceived set of questions: The Issei could not become American citizens because of the discriminatory naturalization laws of the time, and would effectively be rendered stateless if they answered yes to the second.
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"If the government is proposing to make Shamima Begum stateless it is not just a breach of international human rights law but is a failure to meet our security obligations to the international community," said Labour's Diane Abbott.
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Myanmar has been building transit centers for the refugees that it says will be temporary, but many Rohingya say they fear the sites could become permanent because of harsh restrictions on movement imposed on the largely stateless minority.
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But as in India, where the government has come under withering criticism for forcing nearly two million people to prove their citizenship or risk being declared stateless, Kenya's program has been denounced for further marginalizing already vulnerable populations.
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They include an Algerian, a Moroccan and a Tunisian whom the administration was reluctant to repatriate for reasons having to do with their home countries, officials said, and a stateless Rohingya man whom no country offered a home.
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YANGON (Reuters) - A small group of protesters greeted a ship from Malaysia when it docked in Myanmar on Thursday carrying aid bound for the troubled state of Rakhine, where many members of the stateless Rohingya Muslim minority live.
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However appealing it may appear to governments that want to send a powerful message to those who turn against their own countries, legal experts warn of long-term problems if the stranded Islamic State members end up stateless.
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RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — A court in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday revised the punishment given to a stateless Palestinian poet convicted of apostasy, reducing it from death to eight years in prison, 503 lashes and public repentance, his lawyer said.
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Many West Africans are left stateless by laws which prevent women passing their nationality to their children and a lack of birth registrations, while an absence of data and education hinder efforts to combat statelessness, according to the UNHCR.
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The six-point action plan seeks to improve laws and policies around statelessness, boost the use of data, ensure stateless people can move freely in the region and guarantee their access to proof of nationality - such as identity documents.
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BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombia will give citizenship to more than 24,000 children born to Venezuelan migrant parents in Colombia, to prevent the children from being stateless and less able to access education and healthcare, President Ivan Duque said on Monday.
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The thought persisted; he remained stateless, never married, tended to vanish, had no telephone, carted round carrier bags full of papers, and with his straggly beard and bald head could well be taken for an anarchist, or a Bolshevik.
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Some have even described it as an echo of the dark days of the Vichy regime, which collaborated with Germany during World War II and stripped thousands of naturalized French Jews of citizenship, making them stateless and more vulnerable.
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Twenty-five countries - including Nepal, Oman, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Sudan - do not let women hand their nationality to their children, placing them at risk of becoming stateless - which means they are not recognized as citizens by any country.
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The U.N. children's agency, UNICEF, said all children have "the right to a name, an identity and a nationality" according to international laws and governments had a responsibility to adopt safeguards that prevent a child from being born stateless.
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U.N. experts warned in a statement this month that the citizenship drive in Assam risked rendering millions stateless or in prolonged detention, and that the process "could fuel religious discrimination", adding that the legal system was discriminative and arbitrary.
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The idea of the classless and stateless society would come to define both Marx's and Engels's idea of communism, and of course the subsequent and troubled history of the Communist "states" (ironically enough!) that materialized during the 20th century.
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Legal experts with knowledge of Al-Anezi's case said it underscored the vulnerability of millions of stateless people globally who are sometimes called "legal ghosts" as they are not recognized by any nation and are deprived of basic rights.
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Jacqueline Bhabha, professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, concludes that being stateless as a child can stunt opportunity, erode ambition and destroy the sense of self-worth.
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Eighteen Myanmar nationals and foreigners representing international media, including Reuters, arrived in the state capital of Sittwe on Wednesday ahead of a government-escorted visit to the northern areas of Buthidaung and Maungdaw, where most residents are stateless Rohingyas.
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The move comes as global pressure mounts on Myanmar to act on accountability after a Myanmar military crackdown in the western state of Rakhine last year drove some 700,000 of the largely stateless minority over the border into Bangladesh.
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While Myanmar's civilian leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, has said repatriation of the largely stateless Muslim minority would be based on residency and would be "safe and voluntary", there were concerns that the country's autonomous military could prove obstructive.
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Some countries, like Australia, Canada, and the Netherlands, have changed their laws to allow for citizenship to be revoked for dual nationals, although not in cases where the individual doesn't hold another nationality, and would therefore be rendered stateless.
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"Bergman never loses sight of the ethical questions that arise when a state, founded as a refuge for a stateless people who were targets of a genocide, decides it needs to kill in order to survive," our critic writes.
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It is high time for the international community to come together in a grand gesture that will see one of the world's most persecuted populations of stateless people become productive and return a sense of dignity to their lives.
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Saakashvili, now stateless and living in exile in the Dutch capital, said the "damaging" controversy over allegations of Russian meddling in the US election was obscuring what should be broader concerns about the rise of Putin's power and influence.
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The likelihood, then, is that hundreds of thousands of Rohingya children will grow up both stateless and homeless — an untethered life of displacement that bodes ill for a people already wounded by decades of military persecution in Rakhine State.
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THAILAND: Nearly 247,2500 people are stateless, including members of ethnic hill tribes such as the Yao, Hmong and Karen who live in the mountainous border with Myanmar and Laos and the semi-nomadic 'Sea Gypsies' along the Andaman coast.
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He said ISI research also suggested that Turkish consulates were refusing to renew passports of other Turkish citizens living abroad "who have a black mark against their name", and were refusing to grant nationality to their children, potentially leaving them stateless.
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Presidential spokesman Zaw Htay said the country was taking action in Rakhine, pointing to a citizen verification program aimed at the mostly stateless Rohingya and a special government-level task force on Rakhine appointed by Suu Kyi after assuming power.
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DEBAGA, Iraq (Reuters) - Ali and Sara, born in Islamic State's self-styled caliphate in northern Iraq, escaped to a camp for displaced people only to confront a new challenge — with no identity documents, they risk joining a generation of stateless children.
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On the flip side, it's also found itself condemned for Nobel Peace Prize-winning President Aung San Suu Kyi's lack of action on what is largely being reported as an extermination program aimed at the stateless, predominantly Muslim Rohingya people.
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NEW DELHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Rights groups should stop lecturing and demonizing India over its plan to deport some 40,000 stateless Rohingya and recognize that the country has treated millions of refugees from across the world humanely, a senior official said.
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There are concerns about protection for Rohingya from further violence if and when they go home, and about a path to resolving their legal status - most are stateless - and whether they would be allowed to return to their old homes.
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It called on the government of Myanmar "to pursue comprehensive and just solutions," including addressing human rights abuses, upholding rule of law, allowing access by aid groups and developing a path to citizenship or restoring citizenship to stateless people, including Rohingya.
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Then, in July, when the trials came and went without any word on his citizenship, Cheserek found himself in an unexpected predicament: Stateless and with little idea why, he faced spending some of his best years sitting on the bench.
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte told Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi, heavily criticized abroad for failing to stand up for largely stateless Rohingya Muslims, that she shouldn't bother about rights activists as they are "just a noisy bunch".
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At the Ban Wiang Phan School, where 20 percent of students are stateless and half are ethnic minorities, the principal, Punnawit Thepsurin, said the boy's uncertain status — he has no citizenship papers from any country — had helped hone his strength.
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Repatriation is urgent, but contentious, and will be meaningless unless Myanmar lays out an unambiguous and consistent path to citizenship, or at least legal residency, for the Rohingya, who today constitute some 10 percent of all the world's stateless people.
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"If the government is proposing to make Shamima Begum stateless it is not just a breach of international human rights law but is a failure to meet our security obligations to the international community," Diane Abbott, Labour spokeswoman on home issues.
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Blending history and investigative reporting, Bergman never loses sight of the ethical questions that arise when a state, founded as a refuge for a stateless people who were targets of a genocide, decides it needs to kill in order to survive.
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They also marked a surprising twist in the tumultuous career of a former leader who has burned so many bridges over the years that, stripped of his citizenship by both Georgia and Ukraine, he is now stateless and effectively a refugee.
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"In order to protect this country, he has the power to deprive someone of their British citizenship where it would not render them stateless," a Home Office spokeswoman said at the time, adding that she could not comment on individual cases.
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But Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi, who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991 "for her nonviolent struggle for democracy and human rights," has refused to criticize the military over the atrocities carried out against the largely stateless Muslim minority.
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GUWAHATI, India (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of paramilitary personnel and police were deployed in India's border state of Assam on Friday, the eve of the publication of a citizenship register that could leave millions of people stateless, many of them Muslims.
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The law, paired with a citizenship test that has left nearly two million people in danger of being declared stateless, has Indian Muslims fearing they are being targeted at a time when there has been a surge of anti-Muslim sentiment.
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It is not a place where the past is stored; it is an institution that manufactures the past as if people's refusal to be colonized, subjugated, made stateless is over, and what was acquired through violence is a fait accompli.
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She began to explore the experiences of people hindered by their passports — those asylum seekers, refugees and stateless individuals who are banned from entering certain countries — to confront what it means to be unable to migrate because of an identity document.
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When the register was published at the end of August, the names of nearly 2 million of the state's about 33 million people were missing, plunging them into a bureaucratic nightmare that human rights experts fear could render some stateless.
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As the protests continue in India, observers outside the country are warning Modi's government that its policies could lead to a massive humanitarian disaster: Together, the NRC and the CAB could create tens thousands of stateless Muslim refugees — if not more.
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Since the end of World War II — in part as a response to Nazi Germany's stripping Jews of their citizenship before rounding them up and shipping them to ghettos and then concentration camps — international law has codified protections for the stateless.
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