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
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