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# What is Statelessness Statelessness occurs when an individual is not recognized as a citizen of any country under its laws, leading to a lack of access to basic rights, such as healthcare, education, and employment. There aremany causes for statelessness, but here are the most common: 1 ## Causes of statelessness ### 1) Gender Discrimination (usually towards women) #### Example: Lebanon Lebanese nationality law prevents women from passing their citizenship to their children or foreign spouses. Lebanese men can pass their nationality to their children and non-Lebanese wives, but Lebanese women cannot pass their nationality to children born to foreign fathers. As a result, children of Lebanese women married to non-Lebanese men can be considered stateless if the father has died or if the father is stateless himself. ### 2) Ethnic and religious discrimination #### Example: The Rohyngya people The Rohingya are an ethnic Muslim minority from Myanmar's Rakhine State. They have faced decades of systemic persecution and have been denied citizenship under Myanmar's 1982 Citizenship Law. As a result, the Rohingya are effectively stateless, unable to claim nationality, and are often...