Viet Nam Human Rights
At a meeting with Vietnamese Deputy Foreign Minister To Anh Dung in Hanoi on April 26, Lynch also spoke highly of Vietnam’s role in the Bali Process on people smuggling, trafficking in persons and related transnational crime, and pledged to continue cooperating with the country in areas of mutual interest.
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| #IBelong Campaign was launched by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in 2014 to end statelessness. Photo: UNHCR |
Deputy FM Dung appreciated the UNHCR’s cooperation in the past time and thanked the agency for its positive assessment of Vietnam’s efforts and achievements in addressing the issue of statelessness.
He called on the UNHCR to continue providing administrative and technical support for Vietnam to successful organize the 14th Meeting of the Ad Hoc Group Senior Officials of the Bali Process and to implement the Global Compact on Refugees (GCR) according to Vietnam’s conditions and means.
The two sides valued bilateral cooperation in the recent time regarding reducing stateless people, approving and implementing the GCR, and Vietnam’s hosting the 14th Meeting of the Ad Hoc Group Senior Officials of the Bali Process in July this year.
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A person is considered ‘stateless’ if he or she is ‘not considered as a national by any State under the operation of its law’.
At its most obvious, lacking a passport or other identity papers makes it legally impossible to cross international borders — and sometimes also internal borders — often trapping people in situations where they suffer from the persecution arising from statelessness.
Stateless persons without documentation who want to move will need to do so by finding ways around legal checks and barriers, perhaps hiring smugglers and putting themselves at risk of being trafficked.
Some potential impacts of statelessness around the world can be seen in the experiences of other stateless persons.
Citizenship law that discriminates against women is another common way in which people become stateless.
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