Azizbek Ashurov, a lawyer, whose work has supported the efforts of the Kyrgyz Republic in becoming the first country in the world to end statelessness, has been selected as the 2019 winner of the UN Refugee Agency’s Nansen Refugee Award. Through his organization Ferghana Valley Lawyers Without Borders (FVLWB), he has helped well over 10,000 people to gain Kyrgyz nationality after they became stateless following the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Ashurov says he was motivated by his own family’s difficult experience of achieving citizenship after arriving from Uzbekistan: “I realised that if it was this difficult for me - with my education and as a lawyer - then imagine how hard it must be for an ordinary person”, he said.

A Century of Migration in One Man’s Lifetime

Grammy-winning recording artist and UNICEF supporter Dua Lipa travelled to Lebanon  to meet children and young people supported by UNICEF, including many uprooted by the eight-year conflict in Syria. She spoke to vulnerable children and young people about the obstacles they face in their daily lives.