无国籍人大部分都被国际社会所忽略

 

Stateless People Largely Ignored by the International Community

无国籍人大部分都被国际社会所忽略

 

Stateless people are defined as people without citizenship¹ or a legal nationality.  Political changes, discrimination, expulsion or a number of other reasons explain their status.

 

The author of the new report, Maureen Lynch, on what means to be stateless.

 

Maureen Lynch: It can mean not being able to vote, it might be meaning things like no access to healthcare, no access to even the most basic of education.

 

Ms. Lynch says these people continue to be largely ignored by the international community.  In fact, she says the UN High Commissioner² for Refugees has only two staffers devoted³ to the issue.

 

The report paid special attention to the Bedouin in the United Arab Emirates, the Roma in Europe and a group of people called the Bihari in Bangladesh.  The Bihari were stripped of their citizenship after Bangladesh became a nation. 

 

Maureen Lynch: Both Pakistan and Bangladesh have refused to offer the Bihari citizenship pretty much on the basis of political reasons.  Pakistan, for example, might say that it would affect the balance the ethno-geographical balance in our country. Bangladesh might say, ‘these individuals actually sided with Pakistan when we became independent and we're still reluctant to have these individuals as citizens’.

 

More than 250,000 Biharis have spent the last three decades living in squalid camps throughout Bangladesh.  Ms. Lynch hopes this report will help raise awareness⁴ of the problems facing the Bihari and other stateless people throughout the world.

 

Brian Purchia, VOA news, Washington.

 

注释：

expulsion [iks5pQlFEn] n. 逐出，开除

Bedouin [5beduin] n. 贝多因人(一个居无定所的阿拉伯游牧民族)

Bangladesh [7bB:N^lE5deF] 孟加拉国

squalid [5skwClid] adj. 肮脏的

camp [kAmp] n. 露营地，阵营

1 citizenship   

n.市民权，公民权，国民的义务(身份)

参考例句：

• He was born in Sweden,but he doesn't have Swedish citizenship.他在瑞典出生，但没有瑞典公民身分。
• Ten years later,she chose to take Australian citizenship.十年后，她选择了澳大利亚国籍。

2 commissioner   

n.（政府厅、局、处等部门）专员，长官，委员

参考例句：

• The commissioner has issued a warrant for her arrest.专员发出了对她的逮捕令。
• He was tapped for police commissioner.他被任命为警务处长。

3 devoted   

adj.忠诚的，忠实的，热心的，献身于...的

参考例句：

• He devoted his life to the educational cause of the motherland.他为祖国的教育事业贡献了一生。
• We devoted a lengthy and full discussion to this topic.我们对这个题目进行了长时间的充分讨论。

4 awareness   

n.意识，觉悟，懂事，明智

参考例句：

• There is a general awareness that smoking is harmful.人们普遍认识到吸烟有害健康。
• Environmental awareness has increased over the years.这些年来人们的环境意识增强了。