Readings and information sources
Key readings
* 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness.
Batchelor, “Transforming international legal principles into national law: the right to a nationality and the avoidance of
* C.
statelessness” in Refugee Survey Quarterly, Vol. 25, Issue 3, 2006.
Leclerc & R. Colville, “In the Shadows” in Refugees Magazine, No. 147, Issue 3, 2007.
* P.
http://www.unhcr.org/46d2e8dc2.html
from universal and regional human rights instruments relating to the right to a nationality and the prohibition of
* Extracts
discrimination in relation to the enjoyment of the right to a nationality.
http://www.unhcr.org/4517da8e2.html
Human Rights Council, Arbitrary deprivation of nationality: Report of the Secretary-General, 26 January 2009,
* UN
A/HRC/10/34.
http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/docid/49958be22.html
Additional readings and information sources
McDougall, Promotion and Protection of all Human Rights, Civil, Political, Economic, Social and Cultural Rights,
* G.
Including the Right to Development – Report of the Independent Expert on Minority Issues, A/HRC/7/23, 28 February
2008.
http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/docid/47d685ea2.html
“Statelessness and citizenship” in The State of the World’s Refugees – A humanitarian agenda, Oxford
* UNHCR,
University Press, 1997.
http://www.unhcr.org/3eb7ba7d4.pdf
Law Association, Final Report on Women’s Equality and Nationality in International Law, Committee on
* International
Feminism and International Law, London Conference, 2000
http://www.ila-hq.org/download.cfm/docid/297E944B-219F-4BD3-B2F6768D64A1C664
Benhabib, Transformations of Citizenship – Dilemmas of the Nation State in the Era of Globalisation, Koniklijke van
* S.
Gorcum, Assen, 2001.
Union (IPU) and UNHCR, “Chapter 3: Eliminating the causes of statelessness” in Nationality and
* Inter-Parliamentary
Statelessness: A handbook for parliamentarians, 2005.
http://www.unhcr.org/436774c62.pdf
Gibney, Who should be included? Non-citizens, conflict and the constitution of citizenry, CRISE Working Paper No. 17,
* M.
September 2006.
http://www.crise.ox.ac.uk/pubs/workingpaper17.pdf
Goldston, “Holes in the rights framework: Racial discrimination, citizenship and the rights of non-citizens” in Ethics and
* J.
International Affairs, Vol. 20, No. 3, 2006.
http://www.soros.org/initiatives/justice/focus/equality_citizenship/articles_publications/articles/noncitizens_20061030
J. Doek, “The CRC and the right to acquire and to preserve a nationality” in Refugee Survey Quarterly, Vol. 25, Issue 3,
* 2006.
Manly, “Sorry, wrong gender” in Refugees Magazine, Issue 147, Vol. 3, 2007.
* M.
http://www.unhcr.org/46d2e8dc2.html
Pouilly, “Africa’s hidden problem” in Refugees Magazine, Issue 147, Vol. 3, 2007.
* C.
http://www.unhcr.org/46d2e8dc2.html
van Waas, Nationality Matters. Statelessness under International Law, chapter VIII on “International Law and the
* L.
Prevention of Statelessness”, Intersentia, 2008.
Southwick, M. Lynch, Nationality Rights for All. A progress report and global survey on statelessness, Refugees
* K.
International, Washington DC, March 2009.
http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/docid/49be193f2.html
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