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Documents can confirm a legal relationship with a state, but they cannot create or erase a person’s existence, history, family, or sense of belonging.

Without a legal identity, an individual is stripped of basic human rights, barred from formal education, blocked from healthcare, denied basic state services and rights, and vulnerable to institutional exploitation.

If even a few stateless children were pulled into Epstein’s trafficking network, that fact matters. It matters legally. It matters morally. And it matters for every stateless child.

People whose immediate family had been killed by al-Shabaab were measurably less willing to accept defectors, a reminder that reconciliation has to compete with real grief and fear.

The stories featured in our July Spotlight span countries, regions, and experiences. They explore the systems that create and perpetuate statelessness, but they also illuminate the creativity and resistance emerging from affected communities.

Shakira Galíndez fled Venezuela due to her vulnerability as a trans woman. Today, she is in a men’s detention facility, exposed to further discrimination, violence and deportation.

According to the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification, in May 2026, Somalia is facing one of the worst food crises in its history.

Carmen Navas’s passing reveals alleged institutional coverups, deepening concerns about repression, impunity, and Venezuela’s ongoing democratic collapse.

Our April Spotlight, with its global, multilingual burst of stories on the topic, reminded me that even a virtual technology like AI can have a similar pattern.

By grounding AI in the right to life, equality, speech, essentials and privacy, we ensure it serves as a mirror of our highest values, rather than a magnifier of our oldest biases.

Could there be a version of this technology that allows us, as feminists and human rights advocates, to engage with it without compromising our politics or our commitment to defending intersectional human rights?

“Transgender,” “Lesbian” and “Twink” are some of Pornhub’s most watched categories. What happens when you can create these types of porn with artificial intelligence?

What connects a pad box in a Nigerian school, a coalition meeting in Pakistan, and a digital security workshop in Paraguay? They each address a structural barrier that limits women’s participation.

“When I was fighting for my South African citizenship, the department told me, ‘There's nothing we can do for you. To us, basically, you don't even exist.’”