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A former kickboxing champion has been given the right to citizenship after 28 years of waiting. Mukhamadjon Turgunov can now travel and develop his career as a Taekwondo coach. UNHCR

Mpho Modise is unsure of her age and does not have birth registration documents to confirm it. She is stateless, meaning she does not have a nationality and with that - no identity papers. Her greatest fear is that the burdens of statelessness will be passed on to her four children, unless she can obtain South African citizenship. UNHCR

Nosizi Reuben Dube is a stateless Shona student who against all odds qualified and was admitted to the University of Nairobi to study Economics. The University made an exception of the requirement for an ID to register. UNHCR

The UN refugee agency (UNHCR), along with co-hosts the European Union, the United States and the United Kingdom, are holding a virtual conference today to urge support for Rohingya refugees and their host communities, more than three years after hundreds of thousands fled Myanmar. UNHCR

Ahead of a donor conference for Rohingya refugees, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, stressed today the need for stronger international support and a redoubling of efforts to find solutions for this stateless and displaced population. UNTV CH

Mayerlín Vergara Pérez has made it her life’s mission to help children free themselves from the yoke of sexual violence. In recognition of her work, which now benefits Venezuelan refugees and minors as well as Colombians, she has been named the laureate of the 2020 Nansen Refugee Award, a prestigious annual prize honouring those who go to extraordinary lengths to support forcibly displaced and stateless people. UNHCR

A refugee school teacher striving to empower rape survivors, a scientist and mother of four on a quest to make reading and learning accessible to refugee children, an activist fighting to protect the rights of displaced people with disabilities and an aspiring refugee footballer using her love for sport to get refugee children off the streets and into the classroom. These four everyday heroes who go to extraordinary lengths to help those in great need have been selected as the regional winners of this year’s Nansen Refugee Award. UNHCR

The COVID-19 crisis has put another 200,000 Syrian refugees in need of emergency assistance in the last three months alone, UN humanitarians said on Tuesday, in an appeal for funding to confront new challenges posed by the health emergency. UNTV CH

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, has today launched a USD 186 million appeal to mainly provide lifesaving protection and assistance to refugees, internally displaced persons (IDPs), returnees and host communities in the central Sahel region. UNHCR

The spokesperson for the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Rupert Colville briefed journalist on the dire situation in Yemen, where the healthcare system is on the brink of collapse; and on a court ruling in The Bahamas hailed as “a positive step towards promoting gender equality and reducing the risk of statelessness.” OHCHR