What can be done to end the plight of the world's stateless people? l Inside Story

The UN says more than 10 million people do not have a country they legally belong to.

They are known as the stateless. People who have neither citizenship nor a nationality. Often it means they have no travel documents, find it difficult to get a job, and are denied access to medical care and other state services. Their plight is highlighted in a report by the United Nations.

The most widely covered case in recent months has been Myanmar's Rohingya community. They became officially the largest stateless minority in the world after Myanmar passed a law in 1982 that denied them citizenship.

Until August, there were about one million Rohingya in Myanmar, but more than half of them are now in Bangladesh after fleeing a military crackdown.

But why, in 2017, are so many people in this position? And what can be done about it?

Presenter: Martine Dennis

Guests:

Melanie Khanna - Chief of Statelessness Section at UNHCR
Amal de Chickera - The Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion
Wakar Uddin - Director-General , the Arakan Rohingya Union

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[ra]

Rohingya people are indigenous people of Arakan Myanmar they also voted in 2010 elections, now became stateless. The government of Myanmar making them stateless because the government of Myanmar wants to play a game with the whole world. This's a crime against humanity

[sheepwshotguns]

SHAME on anyone punching down on the downtrodden in this comment section

[KalanYore]

There are some undeveloped indigenous people who don't want to mix or have contact with the modern society and remain as they have been since their tribes had existed. So these class of people are to be exempt for any consideration not to interfere with their culture...

[vinodkumaryadav]

In Nepal I, an expected 5 millions people are stateless and denied for citizenship. They are deadly discriminated by state agencies and civil society in southern terai of Nepal. The state agencies are involved in activities for serious violation of human rights and crime against humanity which need urgent attention of international community on the issue.

[BrownSkinnedDiva]

Very sad the world really needs to address this issue!

[AnwarNillufary]

You also failed to mention the Kurds in the Middle East, especially in Syria, where most of the Kurds there are not even given the right to Citizenship.

[bobronny]

UN useless end or what should I say. they are always silence on many issues that they could have work fast on and saved lives may the good Lord help his people in the world.

[fidelcatsro]

Wow its Martine Dennis former BBC presenter!!

[emerichitter]

THERE ARE NO STATELESS PEOPLE ONLY PEOPLE WHO WANT TO IMPROVE THEIR LIFES IN RICHER COUNTRIES ? ? ? THESE ARE ECONOMIC SEARCHERS ? ? ?

[malcolmwar]

This discussion does not address the rights of indigenous people to protect themselves. It does not address the fact about the actual language of the Rohingya which is actually a bengali dialect. These large population ethnic groups can easily swamp the small countries by a sort of conguest because of their superior and aggressive nature.

[blitzseed]

Please stop interrupting the panelists, especially when they have not made their points yet. This interview was so superficial and nothing new was brought up.

[caubichon]

Send them to the most sympathetic nation, isreal, being stateless for long they understand the trouble with long walks in the desert.

[michaelmage]

What can be done?? That's easy ... break out the flamethrowers. Simple. Make fertilizer with them.