On Trinidad's first Emancipation Day in 1834, Africans were no longer slaves, but they were not yet free. Their quiet ...

While Assam’s government urged residents to utilize the Citizenship Amendment Act, widespread fears of undermining existing legal claims and forced migrant status led many families to avoid the ...

This interview was first published by UntoldMag on June 22, 2025. An edited version is republished on Global Voices as part of a content-sharing agreement. Walid El Houri (WH): You’ve spent more than ...

Myanmar contemporary artist Yadanar Win, navigates statelessness along with cultural barrier, red tape, and isolation.

Without a legal identity, an individual is stripped of basic human rights, barred from formal education, blocked from ...

A year later, on February 21, 2024, in a speech to celebrate the 90th death anniversary of revolutionary Augusto Nicolás ...

For Rohingya youth, their education is interrupted not because they lack determination, but because educational opportunities ...

Thousands of ethnic Vietnamese living in Cambodia continue to face discrimination, and many are considered stateless for lacking documents to prove their citizenship. Stateless individuals can face ...

Marriage has become a migration route for Rohingya refugee girls, as brokers exploit families’ hopes of overseas grooms, ...

From Mexico, Venezuelans mobilized within hours, building trusted networks to deliver aid and proving that solidarity can ...

This post is part of Global Voices’ July 2026 Spotlight series, “Statelessness.” This series offers insight into the issue of statelessness and how it hinders people’s freedom of movement, educational ...

From Mexico City, an exiled Venezuelan watches her homeland collapse in real time, confronting the helplessness of displacement, authoritarian neglect, and the unbearable distance between survival and ...