Reviewed Article others, 11 which may be as a result of the refugee and internally displaced crises faced by the country. These stateless persons are, as aforementioned, denied certain fundamental rights, but to be specific, in Nigeria, they are denied the right to vote, access to services, and rights to free movement, rights to documentation of any kind and the right to dignity. Public Interest Law and Social Justice are an avenue designed to improve access to justice for the most vulnerable and disadvantaged members of our society 12 and Social Justice, in particular, involves a consideration of both joint and individual rights and obligations. It ensures that people who need to claim infringement of their human rights but do not have the ability, capacity or position to do so, can have access to Justice 13. These two mentioned form parts of the curriculum of the Clinical Legal Education (CLE) and Law Clinics in Nigeria. Hence the question; Can Law clinics in Nigeria play a role to help the UNHRC to eradicate statelessness? Can the Law clinics in Nigeria become mechanisms to provide access to justice through Social Justice and Public Interest Law to those stateless Citizenship Rights in Africa Initiative retrieved from http://citizenshiprightsafrica.org/wpcontent/uploads/2019/01/UNHCRNigeria_Communique-Statelessness_Dec2018.pdf last visited 7th May, 2019 12 What is Public Interest Law? Retrieved from https://law.unimelb.edu.au/students/jd/enrichment/pili/about/what-is-public-interest-law last visited, 7th May 2019 13 What is Social Justice? https://probonocentre.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Occ_1_What-isSocial-Justice_FINAL.pdf last visited 7th May, 2019 11 8

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