For almost a decade, Josef Ben-David was stateless. The son of a Jewish elementary school teacher in Czarist Russia, he hated his native country, where prevalent antisemitism made his life impossible.

Greg Constantine began working on what would become the Nowhere People project in 2005. A year-long project spurred by meeting North Korean defectors in China morphed into a decade-long investigation ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. In 1991, in the wake of the Gulf War, acclaimed photojournalist Susan Meiselas ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Between 2003 and 2013, action by states led to more than 4 million stateless people acquiring a nationality or having their nationality confirmed. A total of 12 countries have taken steps to remove ...

In 1992, when Tatianna Lesnikova's son, David, was 15, she feared for his life. The Soviet government had already taken her eldest son in 1989 when he was 16 and committed him to a mental hospital for ...

CU CHI, Viet Nam, September 5 (UNHCR) - Tran Hoang Phuc is proud of his name, one he chose himself. It means "golden happiness" in Vietnamese. After more than 35 years in a Kafkaesque stateless limbo, ...