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Lives on Hold: The Human Cost of Statelessness

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This report highlights the difficulties faced by an estimated 11 million individuals worldwide who have no citizenship or effective nationality. The report includes the following sections:

- Nationality: a fundamental human right
- No right to reside: conditions that create statelessness
- No country to call home: the scope of statelessness
- Whose job is it anyway? UNHCR's second mandate
- "Citizen, third class": findings from RI's statelessness project
- Conclusion and recommendations.

Documenting the human costs of the problem in more than 70 countries, the report provides recommendations to the international community on what must be done by the UN, individual states and donor governments like the United States.