The U.N. refugee agency (UNHCR) has launched a 10-year campaign with the goal of eliminating the "stateless" status affecting millions of people throughout the world. U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres told the Associated Press on Tuesday that the goal is achievable despite the chaos and conflict in parts of the world that has left about 10 million people without proper legal documentation. Statelessness is the "forgotten" human-rights issue, Guterres said. "We are talking about communities that are hidden, that are discriminated against in these countries, that do not appear in the global media except when the situation is very dramatic." Guterres said the most pressing problems involved large number of stateless people in Myanmar, the Dominican Republic, Ivory Coast, Thailand, and Latvia.
