#Stateless

[reasonsforhope]

"In a landmark move towards ending statelessness, Thailand’s cabinet has approved an accelerated pathway to permanent residency and nationality for nearly half a million stateless people, marking one of the region’s most significant citizenship initiatives. 

The decision announced on Friday [November 1, 2024] will benefit 335,000 longtime residents and members of officially recognized minority ethnic groups, along with approximately 142,000 of their children born in Thailand.

“This is a historic development,” said Ms. Hai Kyung Jun, UN refugee agency (UNHCR) Bureau Director for Asia and the Pacific. The measure is expected to dramatically reduce statelessness, addressing the situation of the majority of nearly 600,000 people currently registered as stateless in the country.

Thailand’s commitment to eradicating statelessness has positioned the Government as a leader in addressing this humanitarian challenge, the agency said.

The country recently pledged at the Global Refugee Forum 2023 to resolve statelessness and was among the founding members of the Global Alliance to End Stateless, an initiative launched by UNHCR, the UN refugee agency, in Geneva last month...

UNHCR has expressed its commitment to continue working closely with the Royal Thai Government on the implementation of this groundbreaking decision and to ending statelessness overall."

-via United Nations News, November 1, 2024

[mapsontheweb]

How many people in the world are stateless?

Millions of people around the world are denied the basic rights and protections of citizenship. According to UNHCR, by the end of 2023, there were 4,4 million stateless and of undetermined nationality. However, this figure is likely much lower than the actual number due to difficulties in data collection and the fact that stateless persons often go unnoticed in national statistical surveys. Stateless persons who are not recognized as nationals of any country are deprived of rights and access to basic services, making them politically and economically marginalized and vulnerable to discrimination and exploitation, according to UNHCR. 

🔍 Source: United Nations High Commissioner for refugees

by theworldmaps

[sheltiechicago]

Huge Low Poly Art Sculptures And Installations By David Mesguich

David Mesguich, a street artist and globetrotter, makes large installations that leaves where everyone can see them, in the public spaces of countries like France, Belgium and Poland.

Huge installations that are designed to shake the social consciousness, as in the case of his latest project “Stateless“, a series where the protagonists are migrants who fight against the borders and the Holy Europe watching from the sideline.

[celoewe]

Yvonne Strahovski as Sofie Werner in Stateless

[jt1674]

[klauslittlewolf]

Lestat & Armand | Bloodstream

well guys here it is my second lesmand/armandstat video i just keep thinking about them and they just wont go away they have become my numero uno ship from iwtv cant wait to see them more in s3 ahh!!! enjoy!!

[dougielombax]

You can’t deny a people their right to nationhood and self determination.

(This applies in all cases. Palestinians, Israelis, Assyrians, Kurds, Maronites, Chuvash, Tatars, Circassians, Basques, Uyghurs, Tibetans, and others)

To do so is stupid and evil behaviour.

Like some rogue state kind of shit.

End it.

[climatecalling]

The Bajau people have been crisscrossing the waters of the Sulu Sea for centuries, the world’s only community of self-sufficient sea nomads. To the Bajau, a “border” is merely the farthest distance they can reach by boat. ... Life for the Bajau became more complex in the colonial era when Malaysia, the Philippines and Indonesia created maritime borders in the Sulu zone: these frontiers were established in the Madrid protocol of 1885, without bothering to consider the distribution and diversity of the ethnic groups who lived there. But it was the Malaysian Immigration Act of 1959/1963 that most significantly changed things for the Bajau. This legislation failed to distinguish between asylum seekers, refugees, irregular migrants and undocumented or stateless individuals. ... As of 2023, only about 100 to 200 Bajau still live in the traditional “Lansa” houseboats near the eastern Malaysian city of Semporna. Lacking citizenship or formal rights to settle on the Borneo mainland, the Bajau of Philippine origins still preserve maritime hunting techniques passed down through generations. ... Out in the vastness of the Sulu Sea, the Bajau stand as emblems of self-sufficiency, but once they set foot ashore they find themselves relegated to the lowest social class. Their stateless status deprives them of government privileges: the children cannot access public schools and adults are prohibited from finding formal employment.

[motionlussyinwhussy]

For anyone who only listens to music on YT, my bestie made this playlist for all your fucking needs lmfao 🤣

[thecrenellations]

Late night soft drinks and backstory with the Stateless trio, featuring Tony's hotel haircut. This book is lovely and thrilling and thoughtful, and I always appreciate this kind of scene.

[witch0000]

[loveistheonlytruth]

fucking Myanmar dictatorship, my burmese friends are stranded and cannot return unless they serve military

[aowski]

"The legal experts drew up the necessary legislation for making the victims stateless, which was important on two counts: it made it impossible for any country to inquire into their fate and it enabled the state in which they were resident to confiscate their property."  ― Hannah Arendt

[dougielombax]

Can we PLEASE stop referring to Assyrians in the past tense!

They’re still here! (Look them up)

They aren’t extinct!

STOP acting like it!

To do otherwise is committing blatant erasure of thousands of years of living human history!

There’s anywhere between 3 to 5 million of the buggers still alive today!

Here’s some additional information.

Feel free to read and reblog.