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by Karina Ambartsoumian-Clough, Executive Director, United Stateless Pictured: Karina's Armenian great grandparents, Varvara & Isaiah, Armenian Genocide Survivors, with their children in Tbilisi, Georgia SSR. When we talk about the Armenian Genocide, we talk about memory. We talk about survival, about loss, about people scattered across the world. But we don’t often talk about statelessness, to be a ‘citizen of nowhere’. We don’t talk about what it meant, and still means, fo

Born Here. Unrecognized. This is How Statelessness Happens. A new piece by The Guardian by n Bailey highlights Unregistered Americans—people born in the United States who were never issued a birth certificate and remain outside formal systems. Without documentation, access to basic rights is limited. When births go unregistered, it leads to statelessness. Read More Here. Protecting the 14th Amendment and ensuring universal birth registration matters, especially for children w

by Karina Ambartsoumian, Executive Director, United Stateless On April 1, I was inside the Supreme Court for Barbara v. Trump. As a stateless person, listening to arguments about who gets to belong—just feet away from the President—was surreal. This is not abstract. It is personal. Outside the Court, United Stateless stood alongside two of our leaders: Miliyon Ethiopis (left), who was stripped of his citizenship and continues to live without nationality. Henry Pachnowski (rig

by Karina Ambartsoumian-Clough, Executive Director, United Stateless I was born in Odessa, Ukraine, USSR, and grew up in the shadow of the Soviet Union’s collapse. When countries dissolve, borders and governments are not the only things that disappear. For some people, citizenship disappears too. I know what it means to live without citizenship. I live in the United States without a country that recognizes me as a citizen. Statelessness is a strange condition. It means that s