Basically, a stateless citizen is a person who totally lacks national identity, that is, they are individuals who do not enjoy recognition as a citizen belonging to a specific nation, this generates a consecutive restriction of different rights within which the right to life, education and health. According to this, it is classified as statelessness, the action of not legally identifying the national origin of an individual, numerous families throughout the world suffer these actions after thousands of years, regardless of the ties they have with the community or country.
In most cases, the victims of statelessness are children, whose problem will persecute them over the years and even until their death, these individuals without identification will not be able to exercise different rights such as: the popular vote, or the possibility of being part of a political party; the worst thing is that statelessness is inherited from generation to generation until recognition as a citizen is achieved. After many years, statelessness receives adequate attention, classifying this situation as inhumane, painful and even a mark on the law of international law.
According to this, there are different government actions that can be implemented to eradicate this problem: in the first instance, it must be ensured that no child is born stateless, for this it is required that they be presented to the authorities at birth, if they are present. of a case of statelessness, techniques of legislation and political campaigns must be used to promote citizenship, it must be avoided at all costs that statelessness is caused by discrimination of any kind (racial, social, etc.), it must also be eliminate the gender distinction at the time of any legal step, and lastly, it would be the granting of identity to stateless persons who thus deserve it.
At present, one of the institutions in charge of eradicating statelessness is the ancur (the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees), who frequently publish research projects on this problem, as well as the recommended techniques to avoid statelessness in the different regions of the planet.
