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Urgent action needed to reform gender discriminatory nationality laws causing childhood statelessness

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, UNICEF, and the Global Campaign for Equal Nationality Rights are calling for urgent action to reform gender discriminatory nationality laws that remain a root cause of global childhood statelessness.

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Venezuela migrant crisis begs a ‘coherent, predictable and harmonized’ response: UNHCR

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Nine-year-old Acnayeli (center) fled violence in Venezuela and lives now with her mother and...

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‘Ground Zero’: Report from the former Semipalatinsk Test Site in Kazakhstan

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A view of Semipalatinsk Test Site's ground zero in Kurchatov, Kazakhstan. Remote Semipalatinsk...

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More than 1,100 unaccompanied refugee and migrant children in Greece need urgent shelter and protection

The number of unaccompanied and separated refugee and migrant children, staying in dangerous and overcrowded Reception and Identification Centres on the Greek islands, and detention facilities across the country, now exceeds 1,100 – the largest number...

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