Liberia: UNHCR Wants End to Child Statelessness

The United Nations High Commission on Refugees has stressed the need for urgent action against childhood statelessness. UNHCR says stateless children across the world share similar feelings of discrimination, frustration and despair.

Speaking Tuesday in Monrovia at press conference, UNHCR Deputy Representative, Ioli Kimyaci, said being denied a nationality is a grave human right violation.

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