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Buried Alive: Relationship with UN Bodies

Buried Alive

Relationship with UN Bodies


“The world has shut its eyes to our problem,” declares a stateless Kurd. Syria and the world community, led by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UN HCR), must take concrete steps to end statelessness. Many stateless Kurds reportedly fear approaching the UN HCR due to perceived political connections between the United Nations and the Syrian government. This was largely exacerbated by the July demonstration held in front of UNI CEF, when stateless Kurdish children and their relatives marched there asking for the recognition of their rights and were met with police brutality and arrests. There was no intervention on the part of any UN office or official, even after agencies were approached by relatives of the demonstrators for assistance in securing the release of the eight men who were detained.
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