- interview(er), 63, 71, 73, 80, 84, 100, 104, 105, 119, 121 procedural guarantees/safeguards, see procedural guarantees/safeguards right to be heard, 71 rights on a gradual, conditional scale, 134, 135, 137 where the Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons does not apply, 122, 123 diplomatic protection, 7, 13, 54, 123, 167 disabilities, persons with, 120 discrimination, 104, 120, 121 - based on the lack of nationality status, 140 - against a particular group, 37 - racial, 55, 164 - women, 55, 121, 122 discriminatory practices, 103 discriminatory treatment, 164 dignity, 52, 146, 157 E education, 102, 121, 129, 133 employment, right to, 127, 129 - self-employment, 134, 145 - gainful, 129 - wage-earning, 129, 146 error or bad faith, nationality acquired in, 45, 46 ethnic group, 49, 52 ethnic identity, 102 ethnicity, 103 evidence - assessment of, 83-107 - competent authorities, assessing nationality in the absence of evidence of the position of, 38 - of competent authorities in automatic modes of citizenship acquisition or loss of nationality, evaluating, 34-36 - of competent authorities in non-automatic modes of nationality acquisition and withdrawal, evaluating, 31-33 - passport, 36, 38, 40, 42, 44, 95 - types of, 83-86 exclusion, 111 Executive Committee, UNHCR - Conclusion 44 (XXXVII) of 1986 on detention of refugees and asylum-seekers, 112 - Conclusion 96 on the return of persons found not to be in need of international protection, 161 - Conclusion 103 (LVI) of 2005 on complementary forms of protection, 15, 79 - Conclusion 106 (LV1) of 2006 on identification, prevention and reduction of statelessness and protection of stateless persons, 112 - Conclusions Adopted by the Executive Committee on The International Protection of Refugees, 1975-2009, 8 96