'Tenacious' Kyrgyz lawyer and statelessness champion, wins prestigious UNHCR prize
Oct 03, 2019, at 10:23 am
New York: A rights lawyer who took to horseback to help more than 10,000 stateless people gain nationality in Kyrgystan after the break-up of the Soviet Union, has been awarded the UN refugee agency’s prestigious 2019 Nansen Refugee Award.