GENEVA, May 18 (UNHCR) - Philippe Leclerc has worked for the UNHCR for 17 years. For the last three years, he has headed the agency's small Statelessness Unit. Leclerc says this fascinating issue has ...

Millions of people around the world are denied the right to a nationality, leaving them stateless. As a result, they may be unable to access other basic rights and services, such as being able to go ...

Hannah Arendt became a stateless person in 1933 upon fleeing Germany to France. Upon fleeing Germany to France in 1933 without her official papers, Hannah Arendt became a stateless person. After ...

ASBURY PARK, N.J. — After decades without a country, Karina Ambartsoumian-Clough finally has a home she can call her own. Last November, she and her husband, Kevin Clough, closed on a charming, single ...

There's also a real risk of indefinite detention of a stateless person because stateless people are not citizens of any country and there is, technically, no place to return them to, Bingham says.