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Actor and UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Cate Blanchett called for governments to work toward an end to statelessness which afflicts people “from cradle to grave”, robbing them of jobs, educations and the right to a nationality. UNHCR

Azizbek Ashurov, a lawyer, whose work has supported the efforts of the Kyrgyz Republic in becoming the first country in the world to end statelessness, has been selected as the 2019 winner of the UN Refugee Agency’s Nansen Refugee Award. UNHCR

As the people of north-west Syria face intensifying violence, tens of thousands of women and children continue to be kept in “inhumane conditions” in a remote camp on the other side of the country, UN-appointed investigators said today. UNTV CH

More than 500,000 Rohingya refugees who fled violence in Myanmar in 2017 have received identification cards that the UN insisted today were critical to safeguarding their right to return home. UNTV CH

The International Organization for Migration (IOM) welcomed the decision made by the Government of Colombia granting nationality to children born in the country, to Venezuelan parents. This measure will benefit more than 24,000 children who are at risk of statelessness. UNIFEED

The Government of Kenya issued birth certificates to 600 children from Shona community, hailing as an important protection measure and first step towards ending statelessness for 3,500 people. UNHCR

Thousands of suspected foreign ISIL fighters and their families who are being held in detention in Syria and Iraq must treated fairly by their captors and taken back by their own countries, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights said on Monday. UNHCR

The Côte d’Ivoire Women’s Legal Aid Association – supported by UNHCR – is working to combat statelessness, which leaves people on the margins of society, restricting their ability to work, own property, get an education and live full lives under the protection of the law. UNHCR

Aminata Sidibé was born in Côte d’Ivoire in 1960, the same year the country became independent. Three other generations of her family have followed, but they are still not recognized as Ivorian. Like thousands of others, they are penned in by legal barriers that put them at risk of statelessness. UNHCR

A top UN official told reporters in Geneva help is needed urgently from the international community for some 2,500 apparently stateless “foreign children” at a camp in north-east Syria. UNTV CH