Contents
PART I: INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................................................................3
List of abbreviations and acronyms ...............................................................................................................................4
Introduction ...................................................................................................................................................................5
Full text of the Principles on Deprivation of Nationality as a National Security Measure.............................................9
PART II: COMMENTARY ..............................................................................................................................................19
Principle 2: Definitions .................................................................................................................................................20
2.1 Nationality .........................................................................................................................................................20
2.2. Deprivation of nationality ................................................................................................................................22
2.3. Statelessness ....................................................................................................................................................25
Principle 3: The right to a nationality ..........................................................................................................................27
Principle 4: Basic rule ...................................................................................................................................................28
Principle 5: The avoidance of statelessness ................................................................................................................31
Principle 6: The prohibition of discriminatory deprivation of nationality ...................................................................34
Principle 7: The prohibition of arbitrary deprivation of nationality ............................................................................43
7.1. Arbitrary deprivation of nationality .................................................................................................................43
7.2. Legitimate purpose ..........................................................................................................................................45
7.3. Legality .............................................................................................................................................................52
7.4. Necessity ..........................................................................................................................................................55
7.6. Procedural safeguards ......................................................................................................................................61
Principle 8: The rights to a fair trial, effective remedy and reparation .......................................................................65
Principle 9: Further human rights, humanitarian and refugee law obligations and standards ...................................70
. . The right to enter and remain in one’s own country .......................................................................................70
9.2. The prohibition of refoulement .......................................................................................................................73
9.3. Prohibition against torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment ...............................76
9.4. Liberty and security of the person ...................................................................................................................78
9.5 Legal personhood ..............................................................................................................................................80
9.6. Right to private and family life .........................................................................................................................82
9.7. The rights of the child.......................................................................................................................................83
9.8. Derivative loss of nationality ............................................................................................................................86
Principle 10: Deprivation by proxy and proxy measures .............................................................................................87
Principle 11: International cooperation .......................................................................................................................89
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