A seminar on the problem of statelessness was held in Ashgabat

Employees of the Office of the Ombudsman of Turkmenistan took part in a training seminar on statelessness organized by the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). This is reported by Centralasia.news.

Speakers included Rano Saidumarova, Senior Legal Adviser, Legal Protection, UNHCR; Sergey Gayna, Statelessness Adviser, UNHCR Central Asia; and Hanifa Karimi, Legal Adviser, UNHCR.

Methods of identifying vulnerable IDPs and stateless persons in places of detention and at borders were considered, international practices to reduce and prevent statelessness were studied. UNHCR representatives highly appreciated the National Action Plan on Elimination of Statelessness for 2019-2024.