Statelessness

In international law, a stateless person is someone who is "not considered as a national by any state under the operation of its law". Some stateless people are also refugees. However, not all refugees are stateless, and many people who are stateless have never crossed an international border. At the end of 2022, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees published an estimation of 4.4 million people worldwide as either stateless or of undetermined nationality, which is 90,800 (or 2%) more than at the end of 2021. However, the data itself is not complete because UNHCR does not have data

2004 film directed by Steven Spielberg

The Nakba () is the ethnic cleansing of Palestinian Arabs by Israel through their violent displacement and dispossession of land, property, and belongings, along with the destruction of their society and the suppression of their culture, identity, political rights, and national aspirations. The term is used to describe the events of the 1948 Palestine war in Mandatory Palestine as well as Israel's ongoing persecution and displacement of Palestinians. As a whole, it covers the fracturing of Palestinian society and the longstanding rejection of the right of return for Palestinian refugees and th

passport for stateless refugees

organization

society that is not governed by a state, or, especially in common American English, has no government; anthropological phenomenon of societies where state-like social organisation is not present.

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Non-refoulement () is a fundamental principle of international law anchored in the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees that forbids a country from deporting ("refoulement") any person to any country in which their "life or freedom would be threatened" on account of "race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion". The only exception to non-refoulement according to the Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees are "reasonable grounds" of "danger to the security of the country" or "danger to the community of that country". Unlike poli

political principle within the Israeli–Palestinian conflict sphere

1954 United Nations treaty

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2004 decision of the High Court of Australia

ethnic group

1961 United Nations multilateral treaty

The Bedoon or Bidoon or Bidoun (), fully Bidoon jinsiya, are stateless people in several Middle Eastern countries, but particularly in Kuwait, where there is a large population of stateless people who lack access to many of the country's basic services. It is widely believed that the Bedoon issue in Kuwait is sectarian in nature.

people in Slovenia who were not entered in the permanent population register of Slovenia from 26 February 1992 (after independence from Yugoslavia) and were therefore denied a number of economic and social rights

travel document for stateless persons according to the 1954 Convention Relating to the Status of Stateless Persons

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subject of public international law

1933 League of Nations document