The plight of stateless children
JOSE Neves Pedro was born in the Johannesburg General Hospital on February 7, 1996. Issued only a hospital letter and handwritten birth certificate without an ID number, Pedro is one of thousands of stateless persons living in South Africa.
Born to refugee parents who fled the Angolan civil war, the 25-year-old has no legal documentation to his name. Without an ID number Pedro cannot access his basic human
