Luxembourg and Tajikistan. The World’s Stateless also refers to numerous declarations on the problem of statelessness including the Abidjan Declaration on the Eradication of Statelessness covering West Africa, the Declaration of the International Conference of the Great Lakes Region on the Eradication of Statelessness, the N’Djamena Initiative on the Eradication of Statelessness covering Central Africa, the Arab Declaration on Legal Identity and Belonging covering members of the League of Arab States, and the Brazil Declaration which devotes a chapter to ending statelessness in the Americas. The present report must be commended in this backdrop for its effort to raise awareness about the grave problems encountered by precarious citizens and stateless persons. It is an important and timely effort to flag relevant legal issues as law and legal institutions are an important site of struggle for democratic rights. Even as concern grows that judicial institutions are not as alert to the violation of democratic rights as in the past, the resort to them is still a significant remedy in the hands of those threatened with or deprived of the right to nationality. Not everyone may agree with every bit of the analysis offered on a wide range of legal issues and questions. But it bears reiteration that what the report does effectively is to consider all pertinent policy and legal aspects concerning the status of precarious citizens and stateless persons, including issues relating to detention. To that end, this report renders a signal service making cogent recommendations. I earnestly hope this report will be read, disseminated and debated. B.S. Chimni Distinguished Professor of International Law O.P. Jindal Global University Sonipat, Haryana, India November 2020  9