Problems in civil registration THIS IS RAMAN. He has been living in a Roma community in Serbia in a legal limbo for years. He was born in 1987 in the then Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, but his birth was never registered. He fled the war with his family and ended up in Serbia. Without any documentation proving their nationality, the family had difficulties accessing basic rights, such as education and health care. Raman faced harassment and had trouble both travelling and finding work. Following the adoption of a new procedure for establishing the time and place of birth, Raman was finally able to register his birth in 2013. Despite this, he has not yet been able to obtain an identity card proving his nationality. To learn more about Raman, please see www.unhcr.org/53c7d0756.html. From the video “Here I Am - Legally Invisible” by Praxis in Serbia. Children are born stateless THIS IS STERA AND HER YOUNGER BROTHER, MOHAMMED. They were born stateless in Malta. Their father, Quis, is a Syrian Kurd, one of many hundreds of thousands stripped of citizenship during the 1960s and 1970s. His wife Nessrin is also Kurdish, but she is a Syrian citizen. However, under Syrian law, Nessrin cannot confer her citizenship to her spouse or her children. Maltese law entitles children born stateless in Malta to Maltese citizenship after 5 years of residence in the country. To learn more about Stera and Mohammed, please see http://goo.gl/RJpOHz. © Darrin Zammit Lupi / Photo forms part of the www.islelanders.com a project supported by UNHCR. STATELESSNESS IN EUROPE 7