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350 Afghan detainees including women and children repatriated from Pakista
Updated : 9 months, 3 weeks ago IST
At least 350 Afghans, including women and children, were released from Pakistani jails and returned via Torkham. Many had valid documents but still faced arrest and mistreatment. Some remain separated from families, as deportations and repatriations from Pakistan and Iran continue, Tolo News
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Nepal's amended citizenship bill paves way to acquire citizenship in mothe
Updated : 11 months ago IST
Nepal's parliament has passed a bill allowing children to acquire citizenship through their mothers, even if the father's identity is unknown--marking a major step toward gender equality and helping reduce statelessness among children born to Nepali women, especially those returning from abr
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US transfers thousands of seized weapons, ammunition to Ukraine
Updated : 2 years, 1 month ago IST
The munitions were originally seized by the US military and its partners "from four separate transiting stateless vessels between 22 May 2021 to 15 Feb 2023," however, the US government did not obtain ownership of the equipment via the Justice Department's civil forfeiture process until D
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A Tibetan exile's account of being stateless in world of nation-states
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Lhasa [Tibet], July 28 (ANI): Tenzin Jampa, is a Tibetan student born and raised in India. Currently an undergraduate at MIT, Cambridge, US shared his pain of being stateless in the world of nation-states.
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Putin signs laws on sanctioning foreign individuals, criminalizing fakes a
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Moscow [Russia], March 5 (ANI/Sputnik): Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a federal law broadening sanctions for violating the rights of Russian citizens to all foreigners and stateless persons, the Kremlin said on Friday.
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What does Taliban rule mean for the region and the West?
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan] September 25 (ANI): Taliban can rule Afghanistan, but they can never govern it," said Massoud Hossaini, a Pulitzer Prize and WPP winner photojournalist who managed to escape the Taliban and is now forced to be, "stateless."
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Russia to temporarily ban entry of foreign nationals amid coronavirus conc
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Moscow [Russia], Mar 17 (ANI): Russia will ban the entry of foreign citizens and stateless persons from March 18 to May 1 as part of the measures to prevent the spread of novel coronavirus in the country, its government announced on Monday.
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CAA renders certain category of children stateless, says petition filed in
Updated : 6 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Jan 3 (ANI): A fresh petition was on Friday filed in the Supreme Court by an NGO challenging the Citizenship Amendment Act, 2019, contending that the law renders certain category of children as stateless.
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Hong Kong: IHRC expresses concerns over Pak's 'malicious' action against h
Updated : 6 years, 8 months ago IST
Hong Kong, Sept 13 (ANI): International Human Right Council of Hong Kong has expressed concern over "malicious and unlawful actions" of Pakistan against Human Right activist Abdul Baseer Naveed who has been rendered stateless after Islamabad deprived him of his passport, freedom of movement
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Those excluded from NRC list are not 'Stateless': MEA
Updated : 6 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Sept 1 (ANI): India on Sunday said people excluded from the National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Assam have not become "Stateless" and will enjoy all rights as before till they exhaust all remedies available under the law
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Thai cave rescue: Stateless boys, coach get citizenship
Updated : 7 years, 9 months ago IST
Bangkok [Thailand] Aug 9(ANI): Three boys from a football team, who were rescued from Tham Luang cave in northern Thailand last month, were granted Thai citizenship along with their 25-year-old coach on Wednesday.
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Pak to discard hand written passports from Oct. 1
Updated : 8 years, 9 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], Sept. 2 (ANI): The Pakistan Foreign Office has said that its citizens living abroad could become stateless as the government has introduced a new rule putting an end to the non-machine readable passports, which comes into force at the end of September.
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