#ibelong

The UN Refugee Agency in Ukraine (UNHCR) opened a mural in Kyiv to mark the 5th Anniversary of the Statelessness Eradication Campaign #IBelong and attract attention to the importance of combating statelessness in the country that currently has the largest number of stateless people in Europe. Artist Kateryna Rudakova was inspired by the story in the news about a 6-year-old boy from Crimea who painted himself a passport of Ukraine with his colour pencils. With this theme the artist wanted to convey the idea that obtaining such key civic document as the passport of the citizen of Ukraine is impossible for lots of people who live in territories which are not under control of Ukrainian government (Crimea was occupied by Russia in 2014).