25 | PROTECTING STATELESS PERSONS FROM ARBITRARY DETENTION IN MALTA ENDNOTES 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Kim v. Russia [2014] Application no. 44260/13 (ECtHR) para. 54 European Network on Statelessness, Protecting Stateless Persons from Arbitrary Detention: A Regional Toolkit for Practitioners (2015) Further information is available on the European Network on Statelessness website at www.statelessness.eu Chapter 188, Laws of Malta, Article 2(1), available at http://www.justiceservices.gov.mt/DownloadDocument.aspx?app=l om&itemid=8702&l=1 ECtHR, Genovese v. Malta, Application No 53124/09, 11 October 2011, available at http://hudoc.echr.coe.int/eng?i=001-106785 UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, Summary record of the 1762nd meeting, Second periodic report of Malta (17 January 2013), 22 May 2013, CRC/C/SR 1762, para. 25. UNHCR, Mapping Statelessness in Malta, August 2014, available at http://www.refworld.org/docid/546dae5d4.html Meeting with the Minister of Home Affairs and National Security 31 July 2015 and Times of Malta, 25 March 2015, available at http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20150325/local/gover nment-considering-conventions-on-stateless-people.561372 See charts and figures compiled by UNHCR, http://www.unhcr.org.mt/charts/ aditus foundation et al, ‘NGO Press Statement on the Death of Mamadou Kamara in Detention Service Custody on June 30’, 1 July 2012, available at http://www.jesuit.org.mt/content.aspx?id=328754#.VcxqfPmqq68 The report (in Maltese) is not available online, reactions can be seen at Malta Today, NGOs condemn politicians who read Kamara report and failed to act, 12 December 2014, available at 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 http://www.maltatoday.com.mt/news/national/47392/ngos_condem n_politicians_who_read_kamara_report_and_failed_to_act#.VYvYA2qqko Ministry of Defence, Government of Italy, available at http://www.marina.difesa.it/EN/operations/Pagine/MareNostrum.a spx ECRE, ‘Mare Nostrum to end – New Frontex operation will not ensure rescue of migrants in international waters’, 10 October 2014, available at http://ecre.org/component/content/article/70-weeklybulletin-articles/855-operation-mare-nostrum-to-end-frontextriton-operation-will-not-ensure-rescue-at-sea-of-migrants-ininternational-waters.html Interview with the Assistant Refugee Commissioner, 2 June 2015. Three persons are detained as at 18 June 2015. UN General Assembly, International Convention of the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, 21 December 1965, Articles 1(3) and 5. Malta has been party to this Convention since 5 September 1968, with ratification on 27 of May 1971. UN General Assembly, International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, 16 December 1966, Article 24(3), not part of the reservations of Malta. Malta has been a party to the Covenant since 13 September 1990. UN General Assembly, Convention on the Rights of the Child, 20 November 1989, Article 7(1). Malta acceded to this Convention on 16 January 1990, with ratification on 30 September 1990. UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, Concluding Observations on the second periodic report of Malta, adopted by the Committee in it sixty-second session, 18 June 2013, CRC/C/MLT/CO/2, page 4, available at