Sergiu Gaina

Defending the rights of @refugees and #stateless people @UNHCR_Cent_Asia

[UNHCR Central Asia @UNHCR_Cent_Asia]

Central Asian States🇰🇿🇰🇬🇹🇯🇹🇲🇺🇿 are making progress in providing healthcare to refugees, but challenges remain.

Health is a right, not a privilege. Investing in refugees' health helps them to stay healthy & contribute to communities,& strengthens society #HealthForAll #HealthDay

[UNHCR Central Asia @UNHCR_Cent_Asia]

Sport unites, heals, & inspires! ⚽ The first-ever Games of Peace tournament, held in Almaty, co-organized by @KFF_Team, was a big step toward integration & refugee support through football

Huge thanks to all participants & partners! 💙

#FootballForAll @UEFA @UNHCRPartners

[Filippo Grandi @FilippoGrandi]

More than 3 million Syrians - refugees, displaced - may decide to return home this year.

Leaving them without support would be disastrous.

Without housing, electricity, water, work, security, returns will stop. People will move again...

Remember 2015? https://t.co/4qUigFZQ4d

[Sergiu Gaina @sergiugaina_]

Now, Victor - like many others in #CentralAsia - has hope. #Statelessness is solvable and every person deserves a nationality.

[UNHCR Central Asia @UNHCR_Cent_Asia]

A devastating fire in 90s took Victor’s USSR passport & proof of identity. Without nationality, he couldn’t work, travel & access healthcare. Today, the 🇰🇿 Gov, UNHCR & partners helping thousands like Victor confirm their citizenship & regain their rights https://t.co/MPYcv6Orci

[Sergiu Gaina @sergiugaina_]

Great to discuss progress in reducing #statelessness in #CentralAsia!

@UNHCR_Cent_Asia with students from @UTokyo_News_en

[UNHCR Central Asia @UNHCR_Cent_Asia]

We’re delighted to welcome University of Tokyo students at UN Plaza in Almaty once again this year💙

Thanks for your interest in refugee protection & #EndingStatelessness in Central Asia. Hope this session inspires your studies & research 📚

@UTokyo_News_en @UNHCR_Tokyo

[UNHCR Central Asia @UNHCR_Cent_Asia]

This #IWD2025, we highlight the role of women leaders in UNHCR partner orgs & staff who protect & advocate for forcibly displaced & stateless people💙

From legal protections to women-led solutions, they ensure women & girls are safe, recognized & empowered #ForAllWomenAndGirls

[UNHCR Central Asia @UNHCR_Cent_Asia]

Statelessness is a global issue affecting millions of people, including over 34, 000 in Central Asia 🇰🇿🇰🇬🇹🇯🇹🇲🇺🇿

Everyone has the right to a nationality

#EndStatelessness

[UNHCR Asia-Pacific @UNHCRAsia]

After living on the margins of society for most of their lives, nearly 220,000 people including Adolat, were granted nationality by Central Asian states over the past decade.
Read: https://t.co/5orvPbM1G0 #endingstatelessness #iBelong #stateless

[UNHCR Central Asia @UNHCR_Cent_Asia]

Mukhamadjon, a former kickboxing champion, was stateless for 28 years. Without a nationality, he was invisible in the eyes of the law.
In 2020, Uzbekistan 🇺🇿 adopted a law that granted citizenship to thousands of stateless people and now Mukhamadjon can finally say #IBelong

[Nicolas Brass @nicobrass]

A timely article and note by @Refugees Protection Chief @RuvenMenik on how the Global Compact on Refugees complements the 1951 Refugee Convention. The note is available here: https://t.co/UY2x8azIPZ

[RuvenMenik @RuvenMenik]

🇹🇲Today I congratulated Turkmenistan on joining the #GlobalAlliance to #EndStatelessness

With Kyrgyz Republic & Turkmenistan leading the way globally, Central Asia could be the first region to resolve all known cases of statelessness.

@EndStatelessns 
https://t.co/0D2bKtIN1R

[UNHCR Central Asia @UNHCR_Cent_Asia]

UNHCR Assistant High Commissioner for Protection Ms. @RuvenMenik spoke with Turkmenistan's 🇹🇲 future lawyers & diplomats in Ashgabat today about the importance of ensuring everyone has a nationality & can say #IBelong

#EndStatelessness
@iuhdofficial

[Hai Kyung Jun @JunHaiKyung]

Special moment between @FilippoGrandi and Minister of Turkmenistan’s Migration Service, as 🇹🇲 announces resolution of all known statelessness cases and joins Global Alliance! Look forward to soon visiting 🇹🇲 w/ @RuvenMenik for key conference on resolving statelessness in region.

[UNHCR Central Asia @UNHCR_Cent_Asia]

Statelessness affects millions of people globally - including 37,819 in Central Asia - restricting lives & opportunities. Here’s what you need to know about how it happens & what is being done to address it⬇️
https://t.co/BON8sqB9jc

Available in 🇰🇿🇰🇬🇹🇯
#IBelong #EndStatelessness

[UNHCR Central Asia @UNHCR_Cent_Asia]

🎉 Happy Independence Day to Turkmenistan! 🇹🇲
🎉 Türkmenistanyň Milli Baýramy- Garaşsyzlyk güni bilen gutlaýaryn! 🇹🇲
We thank the people and Government of Turkmenistan for your cooperation to protect forcibly displaced and stateless people 💙

[UNHCR Central Asia @UNHCR_Cent_Asia]

✨ Her achievements have inspired her family to join her in the sport, leading them to triumph in the Dushanbe Powerlifting Tournament. 🏋️‍♀️🏆🌍❤️
https://t.co/AhjHAdLJfr
#WithRefugees #Paris2024 #Inspiration
#Strength

[Sergiu Gaina @sergiugaina_]

Sustainable actions for a greater development #WithRefugees

@UNHCR_Cent_Asia & @longi_solar

[LONGi Solar @longi_solar]

On May 30, LONGi's donation of a PV power station to @Refugees kicked off construction for Termez's Humanitarian Logistics Hub in Uzbekistan. Expected to operate in July, it will provide 1 million kWh of green power annually.
Proud to be part of this green initiative!

[Sergiu Gaina @sergiugaina_]

#BirthRegistration is one of the ways to prevent #statelessness. Professional from #CentralAsia gathered in #Tashkent, 🇺🇿 to share experience, learn, and plan to #LeaveNoOneBehind

[UNHCR Central Asia @UNHCR_Cent_Asia]

Six key topics explored at the Central Asian Conference on Birth Registration in Tashkent today, inc. integrating universal birth registration systems with education, health & social services
https://t.co/W7YNlYDHhw
#EndStatelessness #IBelong #LeaveNooneBehind @un_uzbekistan

[Sergiu Gaina @sergiugaina_]

First training on #asylum and #statelessness for Turkmen judges - ✔️

[UNHCR Central Asia @UNHCR_Cent_Asia]

The Government of Turkmenistan and UNHCR conducted a training for judges in Ashgabat, strengthening capacity to effectively address asylum, nationality, and statelessness cases and #LeaveNoOneBehind.
@UN_Turkmenistan #EndStatelessness #WithRefugees.

[Sergiu Gaina @sergiugaina_]

A second capacity building event in 🇹🇲 this week. We shared good practices on the identification of vulnerable #refugees and #StatelessPeople & their referral to support. #IBelong @UNHCR_Cent_Asia

[UNHCR Central Asia @UNHCR_Cent_Asia]

Thanks to all participants of the UNHCR and Office of the Ombudsperson of Turkmenistan seminar for fruitful discussions, strengthening our cooperation to protect forcibly displaced and stateless people.
@UN_Turkmenistan #EndStatelessness #LeaveNoOneBehind #WithRefugees