The UNHCR mandate is a refugee act designed to prevent and reduce statelessness, and to protect stateless people.

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According to the Oxford University Centre on Migration Policy and Society, London and Birmingham are the major hotspots for statelessness.

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If civil society has an interest in elevating the issue of statelessness, the government should have a solemn obligation to do the same.

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"It would be utterly impossible to construct in only a few months all the institutions of a modern, properly functioning state Gadhafi destroyed in his pursuit of statelessness for 42 years, " he said.

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In order to do so we have to petition the U.S. authorities to join, sign and ratify 1954 UN Convention, relating to the Status of Stateless Persons, and 1961 UN Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness.

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