November 4, 2014 Stories

Statelessness in West Africa: “It just feels as if we do not exist”

Rakiata and her children live in a small village in the center of Côte d’Ivoire. None of them was ever registered at birth or has any national identity documents to prove either their ties with Côte d’Ivoire or their family’s origins in Burkina Faso. Read about the challenges they face on a daily basis.