On 4th November the UN launched a global campaign to end statelessness within ten years. I confidently predict that the result of this campaign will be to 'increase' statelessness by many millions of people.
This is not because I think that the campaign is misconceived - far from it - but because the statistics on the numbers of stateless persons are currently so inadequate that one of the main impacts of greater attention to the issue will be that currently uncounted populations will come into focus.
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