Tibetan directors, who all live outside Tibet, deliver a quartet of films that explore the pain of separation and migration ...

State of Statelessness is the brainchild of the Drung Tibetan Filmmakers’ Collective based in Dharamshala, home to the Dalai ...

The 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness are the key international conventions addressing statelessness. Both are ...

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

As many as 15 million people are considered stateless worldwide today, with millions more at risk for statelessness. This means they are “not considered as nationals by any State under the operation ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Insights, how-to’s, and stories from the world of social impact Up to 15 million people worldwide are stateless, including an ...

The United Nations has launched a global campaign which aims to end the plight of statelessness within ten years. People born without nationality are often deprived of education and medical care, and ...

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) announced the foundation of the New Global Alliance to End Statelessness in a press release on Tuesday. The project marks the collaborative ...

Nigeria-born British writer Ben Okri once wrote, “The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love, and to be greater than our suffering.” For ...