WASHINGTON, June 26 DC-Open-Society-legis WASHINGTON, June 26 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Open Society Policy Center today hailed the commitment of Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) to address the global crisis of statelessness. "Statelessness is a massive but under-recognized human rights problem that cries out for United States leadership," said Robert O. Varenik of the Open Society Policy Center. "We are grateful to Congresswoman Jackson Lee for bringing this issue to the fore and we encourage Congress to act on it quickly." As Congresswoman Jackson Lee has noted, statelessness is a severe but largely overlooked human rights problem. Globally, over 11 million people are stateless. Although many of these individuals have never crossed an international border, without recognition of their citizenship they cannot...
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