Season’s Greetings! This blog will take a short break over the festive period, returning in January for more on legal identity, belonging, citizenship and statelessness. For those celebrating Christmas and New Year this month – enjoy the holidays. If, like me, you are travelling this holiday season – for pleasure or to join friends and family – spare a thought …
Monthly Archives: December 2019
It has been six months since the Assam National Register of Citizens (NRC) of 1951 received its final update. I have written about the continued impact of updating Assam’s Register in previous blogs here and here. Around 2 million people are excluded after the final count. More and more is written about this crisis in the making, the impact it …
Approximately 1.1 billion people globally are without a legal identity[ref] https://blogs.worldbank.org/voices/global-identification-challenge-who-are-1-billion-people-without-proof-identity [/ref]. The repercussions, both for states and for individuals are countless. And a solution is needed if we are to truly promote inclusivity and individuals’ access to their basic rights.
In this blog I review the recent conversations on legal identity for all and the direction of travel when it comes to solutions. Is digital identity the answer to universal individual legal identity? Or do we need to be pragmatic about what is realistic for many of those 1.1 billion excluded?
