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UNHCR welcomes Turkmenistan’s decision to grant citizenship to 2,580 stateless people 22 December, 2020 - 16:10 Country: Turkmenistan Source: UN High Commissioner for Refugees In a significant step to end statelessness on its territory, Turkmenistan has granted citizenship to 2,580 people, following issuance of a Presidential Decree on the subject this month. Sixty per cent of those intended to benefit from the Decree are stateless women, representing 19 ethnic backgrounds. UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, warmly welcomes this measure, the latest in a series of steps taken by ...

In a significant step to end statelessness on its territory, Turkmenistan has granted citizenship to 2,580 people, following issuance of a Presidential Decree on the subject this month. Sixty per cent of those intended to benefit from the Decree are stateless women, representing 19 ethnic backgrounds. UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, warmly welcomes this measure, the latest in a series of steps taken by the Central Asian state to address statelessness. Over the last 15 years, Turkmenistan has granted citizenship to 26,000 refugees and stateless people. These include some 13,000 stateless people ...

After Terror Attack, France Asks If It Has A "Chechen Problem" In Evreux, where Samuel Paty's killer lived - Google Street View       A wave of immigrants arrived in France from Chechnya during the early 2000s after the wars with Russia. A minority of this Muslim community has been radicalized, including an 18-year-old who beheaded a French schoolteacher in October. Along the Seine, halfway between the Brie and Gâtinais rivers, Djamboulat Souleimanov tries to squeeze his large frame into a seat at a picnic table, his right leg a little stretched out to the side ...

Take refuge in a manger where christ is born. pope francis was using that story tonight as a kind of metaphor for all of those people in the world today who have been displaced from their homes. you know, the united nations says there are 65.6 million displaced people today including about 20 million refugees and 10 million stateless persons. pope francis said we can see traces and hear echoes of all of those people in the story of the holy family, the story of jesus, mary and joseph. and so it was a pope very much focussed on the hardships and the injustices of the contemporary world, the kin...

>> how are you? >> doing well. >> what do you think of scott brown sponsoring this exterrorist, expatriate act to strip a person of citizenship if they're found to support a terrorist group. >> it's a practical problem. it's one thing like a nationalized size who remains the pakistani citizenship, but americans, they're going to be declared stateless persons, what country will take them. i understand if it's a naturalized pakistani american, go back to pakistan you're no longer an american citizen. shouldn't we be focused on putting these people in jail for a long, long time. rather than worry...