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A comprehensive policy is needed to reduce statelessness
25-7-2017
The Frontiers Rights association held last Thursday a conference on statelessness in Lebanon entitled, ‘Out of the Shadow: Towards ensuring the rights of the stateless’ in the presence of the minister of state for human rights affairs, Ayman Choukair. The event was organized with the support of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, the European Union and the Embassy of Norway in Lebanon. The conference discussed the factors that keep this phenomenon in the shadows, realities on the ground and groups most affected by it. Choukair on the occasion, said the Lebanese State should be responsible and seriously collaborate with civil society to find solutions to snowballing problems inherited by children from their parents. Ruwad representative, Samira Trad, for her part, said it is high time to bring all the stakeholders around one table to come up with a comprehensive vision that brings stateless persons into the world of reality. The conference concluded with a number of recommendations, stressing the need to: evaluate and deliberate amendments to the relevant laws in force; deal with the issue of statelessness as a priority through placing it on the political, societal and media agendas, while engaging key players, particularly legislator, in discussions through an all-encompassing national workshop; upgrade and mechanize personal status registry system as well as promote access to justice through streamlined and cost-effective judicial proceedings. (
Al Diyar, Al Akhbar, July 25, 2017)
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