According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), there are more than 12 million stateless people in the world today. There are numerous causes of statelessness, many of them entrenched in legalities. They make these people some of the most excluded people in the world. In November 2014, the UNHCR launched a global action plan to end statelessness by 2024. (Source: UNHCR)
Title borrowed from the novel by Czech writer Jaroslav HASEK (1883-1923). Published in 4 tomes between 1921 and 1924, this absurd and satirical novel criticises military feat and the absurdity and carnage of wars. It features a Czech soldier with cretin enthusiasm during World War I.
