Readings and information sources Key readings Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness. * 1961 http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/docid/3ae6b39620.html Birth Registration: Right from the Start, Florence, 2002. * UNICEF, http://www.unicef.at/fileadmin/medien/pdf/birthreg.pdf and UNHCR, Nationality and Statelessness: A handbook for parliamentarians, chapter 3 on “Eliminating the causes * IPU of statelessness”, 2005. http://www.unhcr.org/436774c62.pdf Doek, “The CRC and the right to acquire and to preserve a nationality” in Refugee Survey Quarterly, Vol. 25, * Jaap Issue 3, 2006. Lynch, M. Teff, “Childhood statelessness” in Forced Migration Review, Issue 32, April 2009. * M. http://www.fmreview.org/FMRpdfs/FMR32/31-33.pdf from universal and regional human rights instruments relating to the right to a nationality and the right to birth * Extracts registration. http://www.unhcr.org/4517da8e2.html UNHCR Action to Address Statelessness: A Strategy Note, March 2010, paras. 25-40 on * UNHCR, “Prevention – addressing causes of statelessness”. http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/docid/4b9e0c3d2.html Additional readings and information sources Cordova, Nationality, including statelessness. Third report on the elimination or reduction of statelessness, A/CN.4/81, * R. March 1954. http://untreaty.un.org/ilc/documentation/english/a_cn4_81_corr1.pdf * African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, Case of John K. Modise v. Botswana, Comm. No. 97/93, 2000. Batchelor, “Developments in International law: The Avoidance of Statelessness Through Positive Application of the * C. Right to a Nationality” in Council of Europe’s First Conference on Nationality, Strasbourg, 2001. Duncan, “Nationality and the Protection of Children Across Frontiers: The Case of Intercountry Adoption” in * W. 3rd European Conference on Nationality – Nationality and the Child, Strasbourg, 2004. http://www.coe.int/t/e/legal_affairs/legal_co-operation/foreigners_and_citizens/nationality/conferences/3_WEB%20E%20Rep.%209.pdf The State of the World’s Children. Excluded and Invisible, New York, 2006. * UNICEF, http://www.unicef.org/sowc06/pdfs/sowc06_fullreport.pdf Lynch, Futures Denied: Statelessness among infants, children and youth, Refugees International, 2008. * M. http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/docid/48fef8632.html van Waas, Nationality Matters. Statelessness under International Law, chapter IV on “Addressing the Technical Causes * L. of Statelessness”, Intersentia, 2008. Heap, C. Cody, “The Universal Birth Registration Campaign” in Forced Migration Review, Issue 32, April 2009. * S. http://www.fmreview.org/FMRpdfs/FMR32/20-22.pdf Manby, Citizenship law in Africa, section on “Citizenship by descent”, pp. 39-41, Open Society Institute, 2009. * B. http://www.afrimap.org/english/images/report/OSI-Citizenship-Law-in%20Africa-full.pdf Statelessness: An Analytical Framework for Prevention, Reduction and Protection, 2008, chapter 2 on * UNHCR, “Prevention and Reduction of Statelessness”. http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/docid/49a28afb2.html A Guide to Teaching on Statelessness 27

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