1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness

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    protection from prosecution, and all together a sense of support. More importantly this article focuses on the lack of judicial policies and laws in relation to stateless persons nor does the author of this article believe that there has been enough substantial academic work presented in relation to the sad subject. The author remarks that there have been a handful of situations that juridically faced inherent problems. Focusing in on the way stateless people are treated, the author remarks that there have been said cases where an entire ethnic group has been stripped of their nationality by their own country or state. In due process , the author proposes that when a state proposes certain laws into action that provide an environment where statelessness could occur, then it is enough to assign asylum to said individuals. The author of this article, through data and analysis, proposes that that any state which proposes laws and individual actions in relation to depriving legal citizenship and state membership on the permit of ethnic choosing or any other internationally protected rights, allows for an individual to grant asylum. The author works hard to provide the idea that there are many circumstance that an asylum seeker may found themselves in that would grant them asylum. Given the presentation of this article is balance, the author includes the notion that while a large sum of the stateless population face something along the lines of prosecution, not every stateless…

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    Statelessness is a problem which continues to persist in our world. Today, more than 10 million people worldwide are affected by this issue.A stateless person is one who does not posses a link between the state and themselves. They do not posses and citizenship, declining them the right to participate in the political processes. All around the world today, there are many people who are not considered nationals of a state due to various reasons, including discrimination against a group of people,…

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    integrity (OHCHR, 2001, p. 170). According to Edwards (2005), refugees are not treated well by the states as they do not have right to work and right to family life. Therefore, from a humanitarian perspective, it is essential to make efforts to protect key human rights of refugees that are at a risk. The international laws support the protection of human rights of refugees. For instance, the 1951 Convention related to the Status of Refugees and the 1954 Convention related to the status of…

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