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Nusret Hodžić was rendered stateless due to an administrative error. He explains how being stateless feels like living as a shadow.

KIDAPAWAN, Philippines. The question is simple: “Where are you from?” But in this rice-milling community in southern Mindanao, the answers are never straightforward.

The United Colors of Benetton’s #IBelong creative campaign gives a face and voice to the world’s invisible stateless people.

Human rights must be protected – goals include ending detention of child asylum-seekers, cutting numbers of refugees in limbo and eliminating all stateless by 2022.

The procedure allows stateless people, now living on the margins of society and in legal limbo, a route to be recognized as stateless and to legalize their presence in the UK.

The new procedure takes effect today and is an important step to ensure the Philippines meets its obligations under the 1954 Statelessness Convention.