In the present report, the Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls, its causes and consequences, Reem Alsalem, explores the nexus between violence against women and girls, nationality laws and statelessness, with a view to assessing the way in which statelessness and gender-discriminatory nationality laws and practices function as a form of violence against women and girls.

NEW YORK (22 October 2019) –The world is facing a significant and immediate increase in the number of stateless minorities around the world, a UN expert warned today, raising concerns about a...

Statelessness is a human rights issue that disproportionately affects minorities around the world. The United Nations convenes a forum to address minority issues annually. This year the UN Forum on...

Summary The mandate of the Special Rapporteur on minority issues was established by the Commission on Human Rights in its resolution 2005/79. It was subsequently extended by the Human Rights Council...

Entry into force: 13 December 1975, in accordance with article 18 The Contracting States, Acting in pursuance of resolution 896 (IX), adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations on 4...

Entry into force: 6 June 1960, in accordance with article 39 Preamble The High Contracting Parties, Considering that the Charter of the United Nations and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights...

The eleventh session of the UN Forum on Minority Issues was convened on 29 and 30 November 2018 pursuant to Human Rights Council resolution 6/15 of 28 September 2007 and resolution 19/23 of 23 March...

Migrants; internal displacement; statelessness; right to nationality; migrant workers; human rights of migrants; access to education and health; climate change; violations of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights; tolerance; diversity; gender-based violence

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) organized on 21 October 2021 a virtual roundtable on the...