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Activists of the Asomiya Yuva Mancha wear masks of Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, in turban, and Assam state Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi during a protest against border agreement signed between India and Bangladesh, in Gauhati, India, Saturday, Sept. 10, 2011. Pic:AP

Bangladesh’s stateless people demand

By Mon, Sep 12, 2011 5:43AM UTC View Comments Activists of the Asomiya Yuva Mancha wear masks of Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, in turban, and Assam state Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi during a protest against border agreement signed between India and Bangladesh, in Gauhati, India, Saturday, Sept. 10, 2011. Pic:AP

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Virtually stateless residents of several Indian enclaves in Bangladesh have kept their homes in dark at night in an unusual protest to demand implementation of an agreement giving them Bangladeshi citizenship. Thousands of people in the enclaves also marched in the streets Saturday before refusing to light lamps at home in...

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Korean human rights commission rules for stateless persons

By Fri, Sep 02, 2011 4:30PM UTC View Comments

Original article in Korean is at this link. The National Human Rights Commission has adopted the opinion that the government must protect the human rights of a person left stateless after losing Korean citizenship which had been acquired through a sham marriage. The NHRC announced on the 2nd that the matter of the rights of...

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