Schedule 3:
One-week (4 day) seminar on statelessness
Day 1
Day 2
Day 3
Day 4
9.30 – 11.00 | Unit 1
An introduction to nationality
and statelessness around
the world
9.30 – 11.00 | Unit 4
Preventing statelessness
(1): Conflicts of laws and
statelessness among
children
9.30 – 11.00 | Unit 7
Reducing statelessness (1):
International law and the
reduction of statelessness
9.30 – 11.00 | Unit 9
Protecting stateless
persons (1): Human rights
law and the protection of
stateless persons
May include exercise 1 Where does my nationality
come from and what does it
mean to be stateless?
11.30 – 13.00 | Unit 2
State sovereignty,
nationality
and statelessness
14.00 – 15.30
Film followed by debate
Select film from, for instance,
3-part CNN Series “World’s
untold stories – A forgotten
people” on the Rohingya;
documentary about the Bihari
in Bangladesh, “The Promised
Land”.
11.30 – 13.00 | Unit 5
Preventing statelessness
(2): Nationality,
discrimination and
statelessness
14.00 – 15.30
Case study session
Prevention of statelessness
– national practice and
international norms
Exercises 4 & 5 (legal analysis
case studies A & B)
11.30 – 13.00 | Unit 8
Reducing statelessness (2):
Large-scale statelessness
reduction campaigns
14.00 – 15.00
Practical session
Exercise 8 - Reducing
statelessness: Partners,
strategies and activities
15.30 – 17.30
Optional extra – screening
of “The Terminal”
11.30 – 13.00 | Unit 10
Protecting stateless persons
(2): The 1954 Convention
relating to the Status of
Stateless Persons
14.00 – 15.30 | Unit 12
Tackling statelessness:
Whose job is it and what
prospects are there for the
future?
Includes exercise 12 Addressing statelessness: Who
cares?
Exercise 2 – Inclusion and
exclusion, nationality and
statelessness
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