Key readings on minorities, nationality and statelessness
Court of Human Rights, Case of Yean and Bosico v. Dominican Republic, Series C, Case 130,
* Inter-American
8 September 2005.
http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/docid/44e497d94.html
African Commission on Human and Peoples Rights, Malawi African Association and Others v Mauritania, AHRLR 149
* (ACHPR
2000), 2000.
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
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 Feb. 2008.
http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/docid/47d685ea2.html
Wooding, “Contesting discrimination and statelessness in the Dominican Republic” in Forced Migration Review, Issue
* B.
32, April 2009.
http://www.fmreview.org/FMRpdfs/FMR32/23-25.pdf
UN Human Rights Council (and former Commission on Human Rights), Resolutions on human rights and arbitrary
* deprivation
of nationality, 1997 – 2010.
2010 Human Rights Council.....................................................................................http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/docid/4c36e7402.html
2009 Human Rights Council .................................................................................. http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/docid/49958be22.html
2008 Human Rights Council................................................................................. http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/docid/49997add1d.html
2005 Commission on Human Rights............................................................. http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/docid/429c3b694.html
1999 Commission on Human Rights............................................................http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/docid/3b00f04654.html
1998 Commission on Human Rights ..........................................................http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/docid/3b00f0405c.html
1997 Commission on Human Rights ..........................................................http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/docid/3b00f09e44.html
from the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness as well as universal and regional human rights
* Extracts
instruments relating to the right to a nationality and the prohibition of discrimination.
1961 Convention available at...............................................................................http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/docid/3ae6b39620.html
Extracts from other instruments available at.......................................................................... http://www.unhcr.org/4517da8e2.html
Additional readings and information sources
Groenendijk, “Nationality, Minorities and Statelessness. The Case of the Baltic States”, in Helsinki Monitor,
* K.
Vol. 4, No. 3, 1993.
“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
Commission on Human Rights, “Chapter IX: Situation of Haitian migrant workers and their families in the
* Inter-American
Dominican Republic” in Report on the situation of human rights in the Dominican Republic, OEA/Ser.L/V/II.104,
7 October 1999.
http://www.cidh.org/countryrep/dominicanrep99/Chapter9.htm
Pouilly, “Africa’s hidden problem” in Refugees Magazine, Issue 147, Vol. 3, 2007.
* C.
http://www.unhcr.org/46d2e8dc2.html
S. Jackson, “Of ‘doubtful nationality’: Political Manipulation of Citizenship in the D.R. Congo” in Citizenship Studies,
* Vol.
11, No. 5, November 2007.
van Waas, Nationality Matters. Statelessness under International Law, chapter V on “Addressing Statelessness
* L.
resulting from Arbitrary Deprivation of Nationality”, Intersentia, 2008.
Hussein Adam, “Kenyan Nubians: standing up to statelessness” in Forced Migration Review, Issue 32, April 2009.
* A.
http://www.fmreview.org/FMRpdfs/FMR32/19-20.pdf
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