Sentence examples for stateless persons from inspiring English sources

A recent evaluation noted that despite the steady increase of accessions in the last ten years, the statelessness conventions have still not been ratified by a sufficient number of states for them to have a truly significant effect on reducing statelessness and protecting stateless persons [ 40].

First, the proposal risks conflating refugees and stateless persons.

In addition, there were almost 3.5 million stateless persons.

When the Games begin in Rio de Janeiro, the opening ceremony, on Friday, will pay tribute to the world's displaced and stateless persons.

The United Nations When the Games begin in Rio de Janeiro, the opening ceremony, on Friday, will pay tribute to the world's displaced and stateless persons.

The Voice reviewed high-end art, film, and theatre; its movie reviewer starting in 1958 was the arch-avant-gardist Jonas Mekas, a Lithuanian émigré who had spent four years in a camp for stateless persons after the war.

Exiled from his family and his beautiful homeland, he had joined the continental throng of homeless, stateless persons whose sad stories are told more quietly and less urgently than the confident shouts of "Africa Rising".

South Africa became the main destination for those newly seeking asylum in 2006, followed closely by the U.S. The number of stateless persons more than doubled in 2006 to 5.8 million.

The decision to resettle was made "after realizing that the vulnerability of several settlements to the easy entry of illegal immigrants and stateless persons was the primary cause of the Sulu terrorist intrusion," said a report from Malaysia's state news agency, Bernama.

According to international officials whose job is to cope with human flotsam and jetsam, the problem of statelessness is growing fast, despite a modest decline in the number of refugees in the strict sense.In a cautious estimate, the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees reported that in the course of 2006 the number of stateless persons had climbed from 2.4m to 5.8m.

Differences in national legislation and the absence of universally binding laws or practices have given rise to a number of unsettled questions on nationality; these include the problem of dual or multiple nationality and the problem of stateless persons that is, persons having no nationality.