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The State of Statelessness (SOS) is an audio-video podcast series dedicated to the stories of persons affected by the discriminatory citizenship legal provisions in Nepal.

Neha Gurung is a former affected person, who attained her citizenship after a huge court battle with the help of her mother (Deepti Gurung) and FWLD.  Deepti Gurung is an

Sabin Shrestha is an executive director of the Forum for Women and Law Development (FWLD), working for equal rights to citizenship. FWLD has also been involved in filing noteworthy Public

Indrajit Saphi, an affected person and a fighter who has been fighting for his citizenship rights for years but, has been actively conducting street protests for the last 15 months.

Indu Tuladhar is an advocate and a researcher,  she has extensive experience in the areas of research, policy analysis, legal research, and gender issues including overall development issues, and peace

Diwakar Chettri is a person with lived experience of an affected person. He obtained citizenship at the age of 45 through the help of the litigation process.  He has been

Mallika Balami is a media student born and brought up in an orphanage. She is a fighter, who has been rigorously fighting for her identity, and her citizenship. She has

Arjun Sah is a human rights activist and an affected person by the discriminatory provision of citizenship. In Spite of receiving a judgment from the court and winning the long

Suraj Hazare Dahal is an affected person as he is not able to obtain citizenship in his mother’s name due to the discriminatory citizenship provisions in the law. Through this

Yabesh Adhikari is a person with lived experience of statelessness. He struggled to get citizenship from the name of his mother. He talks about the deep-rooted patriarchy in our society

Sushma Gautam is an advocate working at the Forum for Women and Law Development (FWLD). For the past 27 years, she has worked on various thematic issues and her first

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