The Plight of the Rightless: Mapping and Understanding Statelessness in Tripoli-V1.3 Covenant on Civil and Political Rights52. When asked what would do they do if their employer did not pay their salary, 40% of stateless said they do nothing and 40% said they quarrel with their employer. This is in sharp contradiction with non-stateless respondents who stressed the resort to legal means or to a colleague’s help. Stateless people seem to be more prone to quarrelling to solve their problems, taking them one step forward towards violent behaviour. Figure 14-Access to jobs Right to Property Due to the lack of any official means of self-identification, stateless persons cannot own property as provided in Article 1 Par. 2 of Decree 11614 (as amended by Law 296 dated 3/4/2001). This is evident in the survey results which showed that none of the surveyed persons had any property registered under their name. More than half of the stateless who said they own property, declared having it registered under the name of one of their parents (47%), or their spouses (15%). Whereas among the non-stateless surveyed individuals, 58% had their property registered under their own name, 21% under one of their parents’ name and only 8% under their spouses’ name. Moreover, the rate of property ownership for families of stateless persons in Tripoli is 33%. This is lower than the local average that amounts to 42%. This difference could either be due to the fact that the stateless generally have less work opportunities than non-stateless, and have a lower household income average as shown in the previous section. Nevertheless, the fact that none of the stateless owns property under their name confirms the hypothesis that statelessness deprives people of their right of property possession. This is in contradiction with Article 17 (1) of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights53. Article 8-3 (a) stipulates: “No one shall be required to perform forced or compulsory labour” Article 17 (1) stipulates: “Everyone has the right to own property alone as well as in association with others.” 52 53 38