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Stateless in Kazakhstan: Yerbol’s story

European Union supported programme ensuring every child has a legal identity
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   identification number)”.

   So, how did Yerbol become stateless? In 2002, Zhamilya, her mother and
   sisters moved from Uzbekistan to Kazakhstan. As an ethnic Kazakh,
   Zhamilya planned to get registered as a repatriate. But the procedures
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   Kazakhstan/Dinara Salieva Yerbol, 10, having tea with his friend and
   brother. Yerbol says he feels embarrassed at school because he is
   oldest among his classmates. Yerbol is one of the many stateless
   children in Kazakhstan and missed several years of schooling because of
   issues with documents.
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   the district police department. There, she saw a poster with
   information about the Legal Center of Women's Initiatives, ‘Sana
   Sezim’, an organization that has been supporting stateless people in
   Kazakhstan since 2016. The organization works closely with UNICEF,
   UNHCR and IOM to prevent and support stateless children and their
   families

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   While the documents were being prepared, the boy started school with
   the help of the Department of Education. Sana Sezim also helped
   Zhamilya process all required documents to get a stateless person’s
   certificate, which in time opens the way for obtaining Kazakh
   citizenship.
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   suffering her son endured because of the mistakes made by adults.

UNICEF and stateless children

   UNICEF is working to strengthen mechanisms to support and protect the
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   Every Child’s Right to a Nationality. The Coalition aims to expand and
   strengthen international cooperation to raise public awareness about
   stateless children, and to promote the right of every child to a
   nationality.