Neha’s Great Statelessness Quiz So, you’ve read and learned a lot about statelessness, nationality and rights. Test your knowledge by answering Neha’s questions in her great statelessness quiz… Question 1 – Maths (bet you didn’t see that coming did you?) While no one knows exactly how many stateless people there are in the world, the United Nations has estimated that a child is born stateless every ten minutes. Look at the clock now, and look at the clock again when you finish this quiz, how many babies would have been born stateless in that time? But here’s the question. If one child is born stateless every 10 minutes, how many children are born stateless: 1. in one day? 2. in one week? Question 2 – Maths again! (sorry) There are at least 50 countries in the world which deny women equal nationality rights as men (to keep their own nationality, or to pass it on to someone else). Of these, 25 countries do not give women equal rights to pass on nationality to their children. There are roughly 200 countries in the world (there are really 195, but for this problem, let’s imagine there were 200). Now, can you, figure out both as a fraction and as a percentage of the total number of countries in the world (200): 1. the number of countries which deny women equal nationality rights. 2. the number of countries which deny women the equal right to pass on their nationality to their children. Question 3 – causes of statelessness. Which of these is not a cause of statelessness? 1. A country breaks up in to two or more new countries. Everyone loses the nationality of the old country, but not everyone gains a nationality of a new country. 2. A country makes a bad law, which says that people from a certain minority cannot be its nationals, even though these people have always lived there, for many generations. 3. A baby is born, but the baby’s birth is not registered. However, the law of the country in which the baby was born says that all people born in the country are nationals. 4. A mother gives birth to a baby, but the law in her country says that women cannot pass on their nationality to their children. Question 4 – know your rights Which of these statements about rights is wrong? 1. 2. 3. 4. every child has the right to play every child has the right to eat ice cream every day every child has the right to a nationality every child has a right to be safe. 53