Wanted: Rights for 12 million Stateless

On 7 and 8 December 2011, at least 75 countries will be joining the U.N. High Commission for Refugees’ (UNHCR) high-level ministerial meeting in Geneva. The meeting, which is, in UNHCR's words, "the largest conference on refugees and stateless people in UNHCR's history," seeks to yield new accessions and commitment to the 1951 Refugee Convention and the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness.