Transcripts For ALJAZ Statelessness In Former Soviet Republics 20240712

United nations citizenship can be defined as quote this status of having the right to participate in and to be represented in politics. Its the rights and duties that provide the protection of a legal identity to people. However there are millions of men women and Children Worldwide who are not considered citizens of any country. They are stateless. And their exact number is unknown. Decibel reasons for this problem discrimination against bicycle or ethnic or religious groups gender inequality even gaps in citizenship laws. Now begin to show you why you didnt just. No western president. Under soviet union was dissolved in 1991 newly independent states emerged. These new borders meant that all of a sudden people found themselves on the wrong side. Of foreigners in a country they called home unable to prove it. The Un Refugee Agency estimates at least 280000000 people lost their citizenship during the for mission of the post soviet republics. Nearly 30 years later thousands remain stateless across stand the g. Q. Stand took many stand whos big you stand. As his back i should rolf is a care guest lawyer founder of different ghana Lawyers Without Borders association. He has spent over a decade fighting for the rights of thousands of stateless people in this country and his work has had an impact. Talk to travel to kyrgyzstan to meet as is a shoe off and some of those hes helped. It is estimated that need 2 thirds of kyrgyzstan 6000000 people live in rural areas. As is back as rolf has traveled through d. C. Hills back and forth on horseback for years. So how did you get an interest in stateless people. I grew up in seoul with time and after the collapse of soviet union in one moment all of the population of soviet union became a. Stateless independent countries decided who will be from these population who will be the citizens and i was born in the extend its neighboring country and at the early ninetys my family and me we decided to move to cuba some because we have related groups that in this transition time we tested all these bureaucratic procedures to get new citizenship and thats why after getting my little degree i was understand holes its difficult to be on. On determinate status me and my family was a lucky most of people pass a dispersal process and they became miss new citizens of new country actually but some people from the rural areas or not will inform or will this huge persecutors or people from the disputed territories borders border zolas so or people who pass it these little did live in came to congress and off to these illegal deadlines so. These people became stateless what we do i think its our duty as human beings to give back to people which you have to their worse but they denied because they were. At wrong time its wrong place. The engine has helped over 10000 stateless people in kyrgyzstan gain citizenship and some 2000 children now have access to Education Health and a more promising future ordinary citizen they can in normal life can work legally turn the d children to do screw get medical care. Or travel around to visit. Neighboring countries. People can not do anything from this list or more so they are they have not any papers actually they are not not exist so any major hole the feeling. Just me at inherited her still estate is from her parents the familys back but when they moved here more than 30 years ago they were no boarders. They grew up got married had children without any legal trace of them. She doesnt want her 5 children to become the 3rd generation living in limbo. For your whole life you didnt know have any documents right i was not allowed to get canon. And i thought on a. Message up. The post but on another. And shoot. At them when. Possible. Possible. But when you say you had a problem with documents where did this problem come from. The laws there let me zoom in to the larger possible on is a good name and you should be gender there yet the comment isnt time you want to come bowled out the talk on music in the land in the shows im kind into. The cold and i again. To live on an awful lot one of the mission on that course i meant mr kimball ball that i am getting in the myth of regular game ball on a possible purely hard. On his name impossible nickname the 2 im not sure. I need to google for all that 1000000000 then i should follow along with them into the garden and they can put it into what you growing up without documents was it easy were you able to do all you wanted to do with the clinic and possible fall down method get it out that i know drop out of all the chained belonging to it all and all. That gung. Ho and. Those mythical min the miracle to him walking junked mythical impossible duncan ball them up out of to make the game mythical turn a lot of. Ship possible. With the ball down and possibly a lot of them. Back me get it. Back with. Wolf im going to go to the. Us whats going on theres an engine a collage and all them. To do a month long support and then bought a screen to 2 little cleanup before. So you said without passport without documents you cant go to school did you go to school all bitches cause them to get games that shop on more on and off. And then again and then those are changed to not blame. Just a little bit oh i am like that and i want to minimally. Want to im indian pointed and killed and im up. And then minutes and what do i need him impossible to do a lot to go on the National Mall only jimmy the possible. Result talking to the going to shoot im teaching music as a demo shows him some of the men who come and. Follow me the person village job. Ill show me that those that can know that. All the little in manuel that of me to go to the only thing. I can those are going to. Think. That was the. Thing up at the age of mick was all done. What i meant the girls. In the middle. East into. A long blood beneath the 1st thing that was going for the results are just small lookin along. Mission up on the spot ive gone towards last week on the look you know that she just a question. For most people when they get a passport is because they want to travel to another country but in your case a passport is. Basically to have a normal life in your own community. Like it. Doesnt notions of a chemical. And a lot of what i thought was possible. But they. Didnt. And. One of the most difficult. And his team was to figure out how many people lived in the shadows in kyrgyzstan and how to help them out. He spent most of his time in the hills the villages of the forgotten or valley which spreads across parts of his biggest. And of course kyrgyzstan some of the areas you went to were very difficult to access yes we because of landscape you know criticize us. More than 90 percent of territory want things. And sometimes we couldnt reach with the we cause the mountains villages then we used the horses on horses was this our group went through the generator so we reached the territories and we. Identified families. And prepared documents on place. Indeed areas in their villages they were going on about their daily life right going to defeat herding the cattle did they realize they were state lizard this is something you told them countries developing and digitalisation theyre getting religious also proves stand no do doing a lot of big reforms on land documentation people documentation in its new requirements to get patients medical support its all about the papers all about documents and they face it a lot of these people who was not there were because they were living there but the face of these problems last time was maybe 10 years most of them to try to get people but because of the procedures difficult of procedures they can not finish these procedures they still stuck in the situation and they most of them the. Most they hope to be recognised as a citizen so of course when we reach of them that we we are identified it was the challenge to renew the hope to continue this process. So in the in the 1st hours over the cases showed. In orders started to came to us i mean it must be very difficult a person doesnt have a birth certificate so theres a physical presence but there is no legal trace so how can you actually prove that with this cases we start with the from the basics so we need a doctor reprove moment. Its a human whos. Missing the 6 a and after we are. Collecting witnesses and go this process include includes a Court Decision stay traditionalists reduce through process commission on the to the nation the citizenship process and then possible to the process is. Its different in very difficult process philis a few of our actions was we created together with our government immobile we call it mobile passport death which included our lawyers who can provide food range of legal aid for perpetration of documents and passing this process procedures and one off show officer of passport this from the province also included due to this team and this team was put by waco it can with computer printers photographic equipment in we. Will get to the rural areas a we did all these procedures on place and we will attract a doctor from that region and we work with the local Community Leaders takes a lot of determination and dedication to do that others might have sad is too tiring its too complicated its not my problem why did you continue. Actually we waited this chance when. We get the political will of our government to join us more than 7 years we started this process in 2007 to attract the interest of the government to explain them all the benefit of government to legalize these people and finally the. State of political will meet in 2014 so we used this chance because you know we did a lot of actions to attract and prepare this campaign actually in support of you an issue or was one time that period and why do you think the government all of us sudden took an interest in of this snow molly every government. On the top of agenda of the government says the Security Issues very sensitive when we tried for security of the government of the state its very important to get people legalize it so because most of this status people cannot legally words on the due respect of getting. If exploited or under the risk of criminal elements. They should work right to for the live in if they cannot work legally be work legally so and we try to explain to government what is the benefit the new tax payers d for their new waters they are new active. Labor resources for the government to. This year also inherited his list status from his mother as a child he wasnt aware of the implication but when he started dreaming about the future he quickly realized he hit a wall. Without papers he basically didnt exist in all but his very real life. Out with his dreams of being a footballer or a doctor how twentys dream of traveling. With conduct meant joins us in the. Cellar. Kinds of your own version until just a little limited up us but just to give you as a ritual nordic child charlotte an adult. Education about another. Possible gilligan little was dark under military why dont you have a passport passport terminal one was gruesomely will run the shop on possible a holiday or a non should do you just drop on the job done british a possible dollars. And then could work out the ships return. Zuck hollister and then does get other clues on the bill. For possible just to get rid of the holding the growing up as a person with no documents. How difficult is that jump in chile brazil gets cold very soon theyre going to violence in the. World bison. Joke to visit this in their document was a joke there was in a city there. Barbara just to look good so that it can build it up with the will worsen at the junior was that must be very difficult i mean how many times that people tell you you cant do this because you dont have documents and all right. The start of the. Trial on that i can possible thing juggles. And i will assume the jury still Wesson Culberson passport all the coverage on that i thought so can you explain to me the process how did what did you have to do how long the haka a little other struggling just. To and on the show you just did that under the president sort of. Was really stunned on a lot of good will of unjust diggins but after all of that in the beginning to a National Sort of after all the official are follow suit on a leader of the sort of holic on investors will probably take me to be active in who will end up getting a couple of other thing the new silicon gunsmoke are going to recently give you joked with us but after that other spot ill call what i was an on id better not get it i reversed and i was assured they will culture cutting down on visitors were probably he doesnt understand the thought there was a thought the result of their job out of their. Cars or their foot on a so that they receive your birth certificate and you feel different of us was a revolution is get them past with alan. Theres only one is there theyre not called on the scene as good as well on the zone or you can try to fulfill your dreams marketing for the horrors article i read just a while of course im a critic or similar for the horse i got a lot of us im just minimal so the whole schtick had a clinically so its a nice feeling to have options of quantum and learn about the you could see the world a mother and you know other people who are still stateless or. Do you tell them that its important to get their paper writer done doc with a lot of other. Meds for the business and others actual of the not want of possible to a lot of manos with the still image their directors the hostel model novel. Descent is now a leading example of how statelessness can be eradicated there are no more known cases of People Living there without a legal identity. Too and statelessness in the reader have to work with our neighbors so that thats why we. Are trying to work with others through Society Actors in the region and 2 years ago we said Central Asian network on statelessness. And you think that in other countries there is the same political will im very optimistic on it because if kurdistan for example can be evidence thats possible its not all the bold the financial its more about political will of governments in the same time we have to prepare for site the sometimes so cited dont know about the statelessness so much they think its me go and. We need to protect our labor market why why we have to give them a nation ality. And we tried to explain they are all over the among us theyre already part of our society for more than 25 years after the collapse of and so they have a children here that tried to explain them most of them they have do well read or you know the from crews down so over the. Integrated to our society so we also properly we have tried to prepare our society who stateless its who for the people i mean. Since it is a ship its a basic human right yes. Yes thank you mr. What was described as the worlds longest long downpours the largest exodus since the creation of the end appended to india and 9247. Experts believe india is still at an early stage of infection but the lockdown has already created a humanitarian crisis and driven the Unemployment Rate up for 6 to 23 percent and its also highlighted an equality religious tensions and a Health Care System that isnt equipped to deal with a pandemic the following weeks will tell of the peace and Mass Movement of people will accelerate the spread of the kowtowing to juarez from indian cities to its rule hot. 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