This year marks the 128th year of the United States v. Wong Kim Ark, the landmark Supreme Court decision that established ...

Nov 3 (UNHCR) - Thirteen-year-old Joe Hullman dreams of playing baseball in his native Dominican Republic. But because he has no birth certificate or identity papers, he scavenges instead for scrap ...

An estimated 4.4 million people around the world are stateless. Being stateless means you have no nationality and are not recognized as a citizen by any country, and therefore often face difficulties ...

Rights groups say stateless people in the country are often treated as undocumented migrants without basic protections The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sometime around the end of July or the beginning of August, a Venezuelan immigrant who asked to be identified only as Monica ...

Discriminatory nationality laws and conflicts like the Syrian civil war mean that one child is born every 10 minutes without an official nationality, according to a new report by the United Nations ...

PETALING JAYA, March 26 — Malaysia’s federal government should look into non-governmental organisation ...

Al-Roj camp, Syria (CNN) — We stepped out of the bitter cold, through a plastic flap that passed for a door into darkness. It was warmer inside the tent, but hard to see anything with only a bit of ...

An estimated 218,000 people in the U.S. are stateless or are at risk of becoming so. As a result of President Trump's aggressive policies, people without any citizenship are more vulnerable than ever.

A lawsuit filed against President Donald Trump by five pregnant women and several immigrant groups warns that Trump’s executive order limiting birthright citizenship could render babies born to some ...