Statelessness and the Benefits of Citizenship: a Comparative Study
by Brad K. Blitz and Maureen Lynch (eds.)
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The study is the result of a project commissioned by the Geneva Academy for International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights to mark the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
The study relies on over 60 interviews to explore the impact that changes in nationality laws have had on formerly stateless people in the Gulf states, Kenya, Slovenia, Sri Lanka, and Ukraine. It also contains a legal analysis on the state of human rights protections by Laura Van Waas and a set of photographs by award-winning photojournalist Greg Constantine.
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Statelessness and the Benefits of Citizenship: a Comparative Study
July 2009, International Observatory on Statelessness and Geneva Academy for International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights
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"In a strictly legal sense, ‘statelessness’ describes people who are not considered nationals by any state.1 Although statelessness is prohibited under international law, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) presently estimates that there may be as many of 12 million stateless people in the world (UNHCR 2009). The existence of stateless populations challenges some of the central tenets of international law and the human rights discourse that have developed over the past sixty years. Most importantly, the reality of statelessness is at odds with the right to nationality which is explicitly recorded in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). Article 15 of the UDHR implicitly acknowledges the principle whereby an individual’s nationality is linked to his or her identity, and it states that “no one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his nationality nor denied the right to change his nationality” (UN General Assembly 1948)."
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Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights
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http://www.nationalityforall.org
Copyright Oxford Brookes University 2009
Photographs used with the permission of Greg Constantine. All photographs Copyright Greg Constantine 2009.
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"In a strictly legal sense, ‘statelessness’ describes people who are not considered nationals by any state.1 Although statelessness is prohibited under international law, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) presently estimates that there may be as many of 12 million stateless people in the world (UNHCR 2009). The existence of stateless populations challenges some of the central tenets of international law and the human rights discourse that have developed over the past sixty years. Most importantly, the reality of statelessness is at odds with the right to nationality which is explicitly recorded in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). Article 15 of the UDHR implicitly acknowledges the principle whereby an individual’s nationality is linked to his or her identity, and it states that “no one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his nationality nor denied the right to change his nationality” (UN General Assembly 1948)."
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