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To have a nationality means to exist, though millions of people worldwide are stateless because of armed conflict, politics, border disputes and economic migration. Others are rendered stateless simply as result of never having had their births registered.
“We’re talking about some of the world’s most dispossessed people,” said the Revd Canon Flora Winfield, Anglican Communion Representation at the United Nations Institutions in Geneva, during a March 16 discussion on statelessness and universal birth registration held at The Episcopal Church Center.
More than 30 Anglicans and Episcopalians participated in the discussion, which took place in the larger context of the 59th Session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women(UNCSW), meeting in New York March 9-20. It included information on the status of the Anglican Communion’s campaign aimed at universal birth registration, and ways in which churches communion-wide can promote and assist parents, particularly mothers, in registering the birth of a child.
...The Anglican Family Network began its involvement toward universal birth registration three years ago, explained the Rev. Terrie Robinson, the Anglican Communion’s director for Women in Church and Society.
Without a birth certificate, a person’s nationality may not be recognized; the issue is important to the church, Robinson explained, because having a nationality is a basic human right, and “having an identity and belonging in community helps us [human beings] to flourish.”
Anglican women discuss challenge of world s most dispossessed
They have been working on this for awhile. I wish they would write articles on what they have accomplished thus far.
“We’re talking about some of the world’s most dispossessed people,” said the Revd Canon Flora Winfield, Anglican Communion Representation at the United Nations Institutions in Geneva, during a March 16 discussion on statelessness and universal birth registration held at The Episcopal Church Center.
More than 30 Anglicans and Episcopalians participated in the discussion, which took place in the larger context of the 59th Session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women(UNCSW), meeting in New York March 9-20. It included information on the status of the Anglican Communion’s campaign aimed at universal birth registration, and ways in which churches communion-wide can promote and assist parents, particularly mothers, in registering the birth of a child.
...The Anglican Family Network began its involvement toward universal birth registration three years ago, explained the Rev. Terrie Robinson, the Anglican Communion’s director for Women in Church and Society.
Without a birth certificate, a person’s nationality may not be recognized; the issue is important to the church, Robinson explained, because having a nationality is a basic human right, and “having an identity and belonging in community helps us [human beings] to flourish.”
Anglican women discuss challenge of world s most dispossessed
They have been working on this for awhile. I wish they would write articles on what they have accomplished thus far.
