Caderno de Debates - Refúgio, Migrações e Cidadania
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Caderno de Debates - Refúgio, Migrações e Cidadania
2017
![Kenya. Statelessness](/br/sites/br/files/RF1252772.jpg "Laila Rashidi, a 48-year-old mother of 10 from the Pemba community collects a birth certificate for her 5-year-old son.
"I am overjoyed to finally have this document. As my son grows up he will be able to get the education he needs and he can eventually get a passport to travel the world,""he is a very young boy but when he sees this document he will be very happy. He will boast about it in school." She adds
One of the factors contributing to statelessness in Kenya is discriminatory and/or challenges in obtaining civil registration and nationality documents. Access to birth registration and birth certificate is important to establish an individual’s legal identity and contains key elements to establish an entitlement to a nationality. Action 7 of UNHCR Global Action Plan to end statelessness by 2024 calls for ensuring birth registration for the prevention of statelessness.
UNHCR continue to work and support the Government of Kenya through the Civil registration Services (CRS) to promote an inclusive")
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O Caderno de Debates, do ACNUR e Instituto de Migrações e Direitos Humanos (IMDH), reúne artigos, palestras e ideias sobre temas centrais para o refúgio, cidadania e migrações.
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