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Statelessness in South and Southeast Asia

Summary

The European Parliament expresses deep concern over the millions of stateless people in South and Southeast Asia, highlighting human rights violations like lack of access to education and health. It calls for international action to end statelessness and urges governments to eliminate gender discrimination in nationality laws.
10 13.06.2017
Other
refugee
human rights
social policy
public administration
international relations

Key points

  • Recognition of the massive scale of statelessness affecting millions in South and Southeast Asia.
  • Extreme concern regarding the humanitarian crisis and persecution of the Rohingya minority in Myanmar.
  • The need to eliminate gender-based discrimination in nationality laws, specifically in countries like Brunei, Malaysia, and Nepal.
  • The importance of ensuring children born in a state are granted nationality to prevent them from becoming stateless.
Documents (PDFs)
REPORT on statelessness in South and South East Asia Statelessness in South and South East Asia
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