Human Rights Tools E-Library- 3 Specific issues and population groups

Statelessness section UNHCR website - http://www.unhcr.org/statelessness

Links to 1954 and 1961 conventions, European Convention on Nationality, Council of Europe Convention for the avoidance of statelessness in relation to State succession, and other key tools. - [Read more]

Council of Europe's page on nationality - http://www.coe.int/t/e/legal%5Faffairs/legal%5Fco%2Doperation/foreigners%5Fand%5Fcitizens/Nationality/

Links to the European Convention on Nationality, and the new Convention on the Avoidance of Statelessness in relation to State Succession (open fir signature since May 2006). - [Read more]

EISIL: relevant treaties - http://www.eisil.org/index.php?cat=712&t=sub_pages

Eisil page on nationality, statelessness, refugees & asylum - [Read more]

UNHCR Executive Committee conclusions - http://www.unhcr.org/protect/PROTECTION/41b4607c4.pdf

Extracts of previous conclusions of UNHCR Executive Committee relating to statelessness. - [Read more]

Refugees International web page - http://www.refugeesinternational.org/content/issue/detail/4835/

Provides policy recommendations, mission reports, news, photos. See in depth report on situation for stateless people in over 70 countries: "Lives on Hold: The Human Cost of Statelessness". - [Read more]

OSI Justice Intitiative Report - http://www.justiceinitiative.org/db/resource2?res_id=103042

Citizenship and Equality in Practice: Guaranteeing Non-Discriminatory Access to Nationality, Protecting the Right to be Free from Arbitrary Deprivation of Nationality, And Combating Statelessness (Submission of the Open Society Justice Initiative to the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights for Consideration by the UN Commission on Human Rights at its Sixty-Second Session). - [Read more]

UNHCR: recommendations from treaty bodies - http://www.unhcr.org/protect/PROTECTION/4517ab402.html

Extracts of selected General Comments and Recommendations of the United Nations Human Rights Treaty Bodies relating to nationality and statelessness. - [Read more]

Minnesota: relevant treaties - http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/instree/auow.htm

Listing of relevant treaties provided by the Minnesoty human rights library. - [Read more]

Nationality and Statelessness: A Handbook for Parliamentarians - http://www.unhcr.org/protect/PROTECTION/436774c62.pdf

Explains how parliamentarians can help, and provides model instruments of accession to make law-drafting easier. - [Read more]

2006 UNHCR Executive Committee conclusions - http://www.unhcr.org/excom/EXCOM/453497302.html

The 2006 Conclusion of UNHCR's Executive Committee on Identification, Prevention and Reduction of Statelessness and Protection of Stateless Persons. - [Read more]

UNHCR: relevant extracts from treaties - http://www.unhcr.org/protect/PROTECTION/4517da8e2.html

Extracts relating to nationality and statelessness from selected universal and regional human rights instruments. - [Read more]

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