Resources for human rights professionals
Resources for human rights professionals |
| 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] |
| 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] |
| EISIL: relevant treaties - http://www.eisil.org/index.php?cat=712&t=sub_pages Eisil page on nationality, statelessness, refugees & asylum - [Read more] |
| Stateless People in Bangladesh Inc - http://www.strandedpakistani.org Human Rights Advocacy Group against Arbitrary Deprivation of the Urdu speaking minority in Pakistan and Bangladesh. - [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] |
| 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] |
| 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] |
| 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: 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] |
| 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] |
| Minnesota: relevant treaties - http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/instree/auow.htm Listing of relevant treaties provided by the Minnesoty human rights library. - [Read more] |
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