Seventeen civic groups in the Philippines agreed Monday to form a network to eradicate statelessness of people in the country, including war-displaced Filipino-Japanese descendants, by 2024.The Civil Society Network on Statelessness aims to provide a "robust framework" for cooperation and collective action between the organizations and the state in line with the two United Nations treaties, namely 1954 Convention Relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness, according to their memorandum of understanding."Statelessness impinges on the…READ FULL ARTICLE
