Turkmenistan becomes latest country to champion universal birth registration
More progress on statelessness in Central Asia as Turkmenistan becomes latest country to champion universal birth registration UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, welcomes a new law in Turkmenistan which will help ensure that all children born in the country will have their births registered. The Law on Civil Status Acts, which entered in to force in July, will help prevent new cases of statelessness arising for children born to people who are undocumented or whose nationality is undetermined. The…