WE ARE LIKE “STRAY ANIMALS” THOUSANDS LIVING ON THE MARGINS DUE TO STATELESSNESS IN ZIMBABWE The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) estimates that there are many millions of stateless people globally – of which approximately one third are children. In Zimbabwe approximately 300,000 people are currently at risk of statelessness, according to the UNHCR. The phenomenon of statelessness affects migrants who migrated to Zimbabwe before independence from Southern Africa and victims of Gukurahundi. Lack of official data means that the exact number of people affected by statelessness is unknown. This report reveals how these population groups have been deprived for decades of their rights as citizens. Denied the documentation enabling them access to education, work, health care and other basic rights, hundreds of thousands of people have been rendered stateless, stripped of any legal status in the country where they have raised families and which they regard as home. INDEX: AFR 46/3932/2021 APRIL 2021 LANGUAGE: ENGLISH amnesty.org