Statelessness and the Refugee Crisis Today 2019 Nuremberg

Nuremberg Laws, 1935 From the Baltimore Sun http: //www. un. org/womenwatch/daw/cedaw. htm https: //interactblogs. wordpress. com/2012/12/17/multiculturalism-is-britain/children-holding-globe/

Rwanda Fred Amram, Germany, 1936 Stateless refugee

Stateless People Non-persons Unclaimed Outcasts Legal ghosts The ultimate forgotten people /

UN Conventions 1948: Universal Declaration of Human Rights Article 15: Everyone has the right to a nationality. Nobody shall be arbitrarily deprived of a nationality nor denied the right to change one’s nationality. 1954: UN Convention on the Status of Stateless Persons 1961: UN Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness /

Mothers’ Rights 1979: UN Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women Article 9: Women shall have equal rights with men with respect to the nationality of their children. http: //www. un. org/womenwatch/daw/cedaw. htm https: //interactblogs. wordpress. com/2012/12/17/multiculturalism-is-britain/children-holding-globe/

Children’s Rights 1980: UN Convention on the Rights of the Child https: //www. ohchr. org/en/professionalinterest/pages/crc. aspx https: //www. pinterest. com/pin/539798705307354100/

https: //www. statelessness. eu/blog/under-radar-and-under-protected-urgent-need-address-stateless-children’s-rights

More than 3, 000 http: //news. trust. org//slideshow/? id=bb 099366 -6 e 6 a-4 a 55 -b 546 -27 c 73 ba 49 c 1 d

Stateless People in the World Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, Malaysia Dominican Republic Iraq, Kuwait, Syria Estonia, Latvia, Russia Europe Ivory Coast, Kenya United States

https: //www. unitedstateless. org/about-us

Status Stateless person Refugee

Stateless and a refugee: can’t go ‘home’ because nowhere is home CANCELLED https: //www. pinterest. com/oldpassports/passport/

The Challenge for Syrians People fled who did not hold nationality. 300, 000 children born in exile; unregistered births without documentation. Children born outside of Syria: nationality ONLY through the father. ¼ of Syrian refugee households: no father present.

Statelessness Without citizenship, children and adults are blocked from school voting ID property ownership health care

Statelessness in Syria 1. Nationality law 2. Civil registration system 3. Documentation 4. Refugees: unregistered; undocumented 5. Child marriages: punishable offense 6. Unmarried parents

Consequences 1. Repatriation may be denied. 2. Integration into host country may be denied. 3. UK: specified ‘Syrian nationals. ’

http: //www. unhcr. org/stateless-people. html

Solutions http: //www. unhcr. org/ibelong/spread-the-word/

Solutions UNHCR – increasing registration • Waiving fees • Opening civil registration offices in refugee camps http: //www. unhcr. org/en-us/stateless-people. html

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Rwanda Hoda Muthana and son Shamima Begum and son

Our Actions Register to vote. Vote. Support voting rights. Raise awareness about statelessness. #ibelong End statelessness in the US Create a path for a nationality Sign 1954 and 1961 UN Conventions Support refugee rights. http: //www. unhcr. org/en-us/stateless-people. html

“Without a nationality, a person has no right to have rights. ” -Hannah Ahrendt Rwanda

Re-naturalization, 2018

Rwanda Fred Amram, Germany, 1936 Stateless refugee Fred Amram, Minnesota, 2019 Naturalized citizen, US Re-naturalized citizen, Germany Everyone has the right to a nationality.

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Fred Amram and Counsel General Herbert Quelle signing the re-naturalization papers