Namecoin as created for freedom could help them also.
We could take World Citizenship and World Passport as working model and improve it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Passport
Why would we need a physical passport ? It has the disadvantage that it can be lost, confiscated or stolen.
It could be a Namecoin Passport based on Namecoin ID(with Bitcoin and Bitmessage) where you upload you data entries in encrypted form. By crossing the border you just say your Namecoin Passport ID and your password and you can be checked with it.
The namespace could be namecoinpassport for it.
We create the entries
namecoinpassport/n5xh8xfy0
passphotos/n5xh8xfy0
for
- Passport number: n5xh8xfy0
Nationality: Namecoinia (or World Citizen)
Photo: n5xh8xfy0
Name: Refugee Robert
Date of birth(YYMMDD): 1988.03.11
Place of birth: Eritrea
Expiration date of passport: 2014.02.12
Namecoin ID: refugeerobert7
Bitmessage address: BM-BcbRqcFFSQUUmXFKsPJgVQPSiFA3Xash
Bitcoin address: Hq4JYkMvptxd28T4zQdieggwQpoc2T6rU
Namecoin address: N1G6Sz2597kKqpQbuWhUSm6mrZvgZGXzJe
1. Everybody could create his own passport entry with encrypted fields and photo.(if no possibility for the some individuals a humanitarian organization could create for free for them)
It would be recommended to create it in advance not only in an urgency situation.
2. Humanitarian organizations could be contacted so that they also ask governments to recognize the Namecoin Passport at least in case of humanitarian catastrophe situations(natural catastrophe or war).
Governments could say for example that they don't recognize it as standard passport but in emergency situations they do.
3. People in emergency with lost or confiscated physical passport could come to the border and ask for trespassing with their namecoin Passport.
They need to know only their ID and encryption password.(this could be also generated with a special brainwallet (chain) from a passphrase - ID, encryption password, bitcoin private key, namecoin private key)
4. The Bitcoin and Namecoin address could be used eventually to receive humanitarian help or to pay border fee.
5. It could be created an online template also which can be printed like a usual passport by anybody who needs a physical evidence of his identity.
What do you think about ?