Without nationality, converts on the grid of a situation in large part invisible

During his niece in Lebanon, the theme was taboo, only to be spoken of in this way before there was any discussion of an open manner.

The situation is dire to a critical point when Maha Mamo, 15 years old, enforced by losing the opportunity to travel abroad with Las Chicas Exploradoras, faced with his fathers.

At the moment says that she and her two husbands were born without a nationality, eran inelegibles para obtener la ciudadanía de cualquier pais y habían sido despojados de los basechos basléla la nationality, including the necessary passport to be able to travel with the explorers.

Lebanon does not provide automated maneuvers to immigrants who are naked in these countries, as well as their husbands, and documents of their own country of origin, Syria, estaban descartos, segun explainon su madre y su padre, porque his interfaith matrimony was forbidden to all.

The search for a motherland in Mamo, Brazil, in 2018, she and her husband, Souad, are converting into the first people without a father to receive the city with a new immigration permit from this country.

During his year-long search, Mamo, who published some of his memoirs about his calvary, turned into the most visible apparent person and had a defensive effect on the difficult situation of millions living in the limbo.

Years before getting a passport, Mamo, now with 32 years, travel around the world using a special travel document issued to obese persons, giving speeches delivered at conferences of the United Nations and other events

“Thanks to its appearances in public events and its presence in social speeches in the wide range of continents”, explains Melanie Khanna, responsible for the Apnridia section of ACNUR, “miles of people he has been attending for some time being able to be in charge of being responsible for it, and whoever devastates his consequences”.

The number of people in the world who do not have a nationality is difficult to pinpoint. There are at least 4.2 million people in the 79 countries covered by the report, according to the United Nations agency, which is a very bad news and the problem affects many millions more.

La apatridia surge of a variety of situations, including the new demarcation of fronts, discriminatory laws that prevent the women from passing their nationality to a hijo, deaths that are not registered, or the massive expulsion of an ethnic group.

Mamo’s traversal to convert into an author, carrier of a passerby and activist trotamund that pronunciation perfect speeches, including a charla TED in Ginebra, comenzó liege of years of desaliento.

Life in Lebanon was a source for Mamo and his two men. His fathers are preoccupied every time that the nines crucify the control points of a Beirut devastated by war, while the series with frequency are treated with hostility.

The money was raised, as explained. His mother, who lives in Syria, does not work in Lebanon. His father used his truck to make money making money. Los niños recibían ropa nueva dos veces al año, en Navidad y en Pascua.

As the nines do not have tenian documents, their parents have tenants who make money to enroll matriculation in the school, supplementing the functions for expenses and favors. When Mamo takes the oath to think about assisting the university, finds that only have a single case study available to accept, which means abandoning your medical degree.

She intends the most complicated methods, including being adopted by the fathers of a friend. The Mamo family pays a small fortune to people who are jealous and knowledgeable, who knows another person who can lead Lebanese citizenship.

“Hicimos todo lo que te puedas imaginar”, aseguró. ‘We will pay a lot of pagan money to people who have ten connections”.

His German troops will be resigned to his destination. Pero Mamo decided that no descansaria would seek a solution. It has a list of all the embassies in Lebanon and sends it to each of them an e-mail describing all the lost opportunities and the wealth that ten.

For years, the mayor of the embassies ignored and responded to other ways. In 2013, the Mexican ambassador responded by offering help to find a way to alleviate this pain.

This possibility motivates the man of Mamo, Souad, to intend on his account. It sends its own bill of lading for electronic missions to diplomatic missions. In March 2014, the Embassy of Brazil extended to Souad Mamo, and later to Maha Mamo and her husband, Eddy, an invitation to travel to Brazil with a special visa for serious refugees.

Maha Mamo does not know anything about Brazil. “The only thing that knew it was an insurmountable country”, related.

With the same audition that the resident has reached this point, Mamo looked through his contacts on Facebook to see if he could find friends that hubiesen was in Brazil and discovered that an explorer of his old group had been dating a family, briefly, with a family brasileña.

She sent a message to the family presenting. To his surprise, the family invites them to their homes, to stay in their home in the city of Belo Horizonte, al sureste del país.

In September 2014, with 26 years of oath, Lebanon abandoned an airplane, after paying the governor miles of dollars in multiples to land in the country with a late visa.

In Belo Horizonte, Mamo has to make commercial work, as well as distribute leaflets on the street.

In March 2015, an interview with a Brazilian television program on the topic of apatridia start your career as an activist. United Nations officials, who had previously launched a campaign to create policies that would eliminate the apatridia, took note.

We will help Mamo obtain a travel document, and be ready to establish the world as soon as possible in order to tell his story and apply to the legislators to create legal action for the millions of victims who have no nationality.

According to the Second World War, the UN has created conventions relating to the rights of caregivers, but they have been the signatories.

This means that it includes lands with a history of receiving immigrants, such as Brazil and the United States, does not have a way for people to support aspirants to convert to citizenship.

Mama is willing to invest so much time and effort in an activity that he does not live by the solution to his situation and that of his relatives. Fue entonces que Eddy, his son, was hired during a robbery attempt at his home in June 2016.

Death generated a huge media coverage in Brazil and the death of Mamo’s activism. Officials in the capital, Brasilia, tomaron note. In 2017, when the legislators updated the country’s immigration law, they included a new provision that would give people without nationality a direct visa to citizenship.

And June 2018, Torquato Jardim, Minister of Justice, an invitation to a Mamo ya su hermana a la capital, a una ceremonia should not be converted first person assistants in being designated as eligible to receive Brazilian citizenship.

Some months ago, the Brazilian officials in Ginebra surprised Mamo obtained his citizenship documents when he just finished one of his characteristic speeches about the lack of nationality, which usually pronounces with a bond.

United Nations officials are recognizing Mamo’s perseverance in pushing the issue of Brazil’s political agenda, which is one of 23 countries that have legal ties to like-minded people.

© The New York Times 2020