Further guidance There are a number of additional tools that can be helpful in familiarising instructors with the question of statelessness and in introducing students to the issue. Here is a brief overview of some key materials and sources of further information: • For an introductory text on the problem of statelessness and many of the topics covered in the individual units of this guide, including a selection of exercises to test comprehension, please refer to the forthcoming UNHCR’s Self-study Module 6 on “Statelessness”, available at www.unhcr.org/statelessness Further information on a framework of action to address •statelessness issues is provided by the UNHCR Action to Address Statelessness: A Strategy Note, March 2010, available at http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/docid/4b9e0c3d2.html • Up-to-date information, reports and news items on efforts made by the international community, including UNHCR and other actors, can be found on UNHCR’s statelessness website at http://www.unhcr.org/statelessness and UNHCR’s Refworld portal to information on statelessness http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/statelessness.html Swiss Initiative to Commemorate the 60th Anniversary of the UDHR, 2009. • A report on discrimination and the human rights protection of stateless persons with a particular emphasis on the issue of detention is provided by the Equal Rights Trust (ERT), Unravelling Anomaly – Detention, Discriminiation and the Protection Needs of Stateless Persons, London, July 2010, available at http://www.equalrightstrust.org/ertdocumentbank/UNRAVELLING%20 ANOMALY%20small%20file.pdf • A number of regional studies on nationality have been published and provide an excellent background for looking into the issue of statelessness around the world, for instance: Manby, Citizenship Law in Africa, Africa Governance * B. Monitoring and Advocacy Project (AfriMAP), Open Society Justice Initiative, New York, 2009. • A global overview of the situation of statelessness is provided by Refugees International in K. Southwick, M. Lynch, Nationality Rights for All. A progress report and global survey on statelessness, Refugees International, Washington DC, March 2009, available at http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/docid/49be193f2.html �� A comprehensive study of the international legal framework relating to statelessness, arranged by theme, can be found in L. van Waas, Nationality Matters. Statelessness under International Law, Intersentia, 2008. study of several situations of statelessness •andA comparative how they have moved towards resolution is offered in B. Blitz, M. Lynch (eds.) Statelessness and the benefits of citizenship: A comparative study, Research Project for the Manby, Struggles for Citizenship in Africa, Zed Books, * B. London, 2009. Parolin, Citizenship in the Arab World. Kin, Religion * G.P. and Nation-State, IMISCOE Research, Amsterdam University Press, 2009. Swan Sik, Nationality and international law in Asian * K. perspective, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, Dordrecht, 1990. Bauböck et al., Acquisition and Loss of Nationality – * R. Policies and Trends in 15 European Countries (Vol. 1 and 2), Amsterdam University Press, 2006 (see also at http://www.imiscoe.org/natac/). Bauböck et al., Citizenship Policies in the New Europe, * R. Amsterdam University Press, 2009. of organisations offer web-portals for accessing further studies and information on statelessness. These include: • A number UNHCR http://www.unhcr.org/statelessness * Council of Europe website on activities in the area of nationality http://www.coe.int/nationality * Refugees International http://www.refugeesinternational.org * Open Society Justice Initiative http://www.justiceinitiative.org * Equal Rights Trust detention of stateless persons project http://www.equalrightstrust.org/stateless%20persons/index.htm * International Observatory on Statelessness http://www.nationalityforall.org/ * European Union Democracy Observatory on Citizenship http://eudo-citizenship.eu/ * Citizenship Rights in Africa Initiative http://www.citizenshiprightsinafrica.org/ * Citizenship Legislation Online http://www.legislationline.org/topics/topic/2 * ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................... ............................................................................... .................................................................................................................................................................................. ........................................................................................................................................................................... .................... . .................................................................................................................................. . ......................................................................................................... ...................................................................................................................................... . .............................................................................................................................................. If you would like further assistance in designing or teaching a course on statelessness, it may be worthwhile contacting one of the above-mentioned organisations or talking to persons or institutions within your own country who are engaged in the issue. They may be able to point you in the direction of additional materials, offer examples or cases that could be used to illustrate some of the issues that you will be discussing or suggest the names of possible guest speakers. If you are unsure of who to contact, please contact UNHCR’s Statelessness Unit for specific advice (UNHCR, Statelessness Unit, Division of International Protection, Case Postale 2500, CH-1211 Geneva, Switzerland; email: HQPR03@unhcr.org). 4 A Guide to Teaching on Statelessness