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Stateless speak up as world misses its #Ibelong deadline

Rohingya refugee children look on from their shelter at a refugee camp, in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, on Sept. 28.

Rohingya refugee children look on from their shelter at a refugee camp, in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, on Sept. 28. | REUTERS

By Emma Batha
Thomson Reuters Foundation

Oct 15, 2024

LONDON – Karina Ambartsoumian-Clough vividly recalls her terror as a teenager when U.S. immigration officers arrived at her home, ankle-tagged her parents and ordered the family to “self-deport.”

The trouble was they had nowhere to go — no country recognized them as nationals.

Two decades on and Ambartsoumian-Clough remains stateless.

Amid the heat and humidity in Japan, a good night’s sleep is growing increasingly elusive without the heavy use of air conditioning.

Summer has arrived in Japan and so have hot sleepless nights

By Tomoko Otake

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.

Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

For many people, utility poles and power lines have become such a familiar part of Japan’s landscape that they often go unnoticed.

Why Japan’s utility poles won’t be disappearing anytime soon

By Alex K.T. Martin

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