Statelessness
 
Suggested reading on statelessness

UNHCR documents

Progress reports on UNHCR's statelessness activities. Reports submitted to UNHCR's Standing Committee and the Sub-Committee of the Whole on International Protection
Executive Committee conclusions. Relevant articles from conclusions adopted by ExCom. In particular Conclusion No. 78 on Prevention and Reduction of Statelessness and the Protection of Stateless Persons from 1995.
Historical documents relating to statelessness. Documents from the 1950 Ad Hoc Committee on Refugees and Stateless Persons and the 1951 Conference of Plenipotentiaries on the Status of Refugees and Stateless Persons.
Beyond Borders: Strengthening Asylum in Ukraine. Bulletin No. 5 of the UNHCR in Ukraine. May 2005
Evaluation of UNHCR's programme to prevent and reduce statelessness in Crimea, Ukraine. An evaluation by UNHCR's Evaluation and Policy Analysis Unit. March 2004
Final Report Concerning the Questionnaire on Statelessness Pursuant to the Agenda for Protection. Steps taken by States to Reduce Statelessness and to Meet the Protection Needs of Stateless Persons Prepared by the Department of International Protection. March 2004
Statelessness Survey 2003. Steps taken by States to reduce statelessness and to meet the protection needs of stateless persons.
Statelessness in Canadian Context: A Discussion Paper. UNHCR Representation for Canada. Researched and written for UNHCR by Andrew Brouwer. July 2003
Contribution to the European Union Seminar on the Content and Scope of International Protection: "The International Legal Framework Concerning Statelessness and Access for Stateless Persons". Organized by the General Directorate on Immigration and Foreigners of the Spanish Ministry of Internal Affairs. Madrid, 8–9 January 2002. Contribution by Carol A. Batchelor, Senior Legal Officer Statelessness, Department of International Protection, UNHCR.
UNHCR's role and activities in relation to statelessness. An evaluation by UNHCR's Evaluation and Policy Analysis Unit. July 2001
Overview of UNHCR's Citizenship Campaign in Crimea. UNHCR FO Simferopol and UNHCR BO Kyiv. December 2000.
"Information and Accession Package. The 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness". UNHCR, Department of International Protection (DIP), 1996. Revised 1999.
"What would life be like if you had no nationality?". UNHCR, DIP 1998.
"Social Assessment of the Formerly Deported Population in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea: A Participatory Rapid Appraisal", European Series, Volume 4, No. 1, April 1998.
"Citizenship and the Prevention of Statelessness Linked to the Disintegration of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia", European Series Vol. 3, No. 1, 1997.
"Citizenship in the Context of the Dissolution of Czechoslovakia", European Series Vol. 2, No. 4, 1996.
Note on UNHCR and Stateless Persons. Report to the Sub–Committee of the Whole on International Protection. 2 June 1995.

Other UN and international documents

United Nations General Assembly Resolutions

Seminar on the Improvement of the Situation of the Rroma in Romania, Joint UN/Romanian Government, November 2001.
Council of Europe, 2nd European Conference on Nationality, "Challenges to National and International Law on Nationality at the beginning of the new Millennium". Strasbourg, October 2001.
Council of Europe, 1st European Conference on Nationality, "Trends and developments in national and international law on nationality". Strasbourg, September 1999.
International Law Commission, Fourth Report on Nationality in relation to the succession of States by Mr. Václav Mikulka, Special Rapporteur. A/CN.4/489, 23 April 1998.
International Law Commission, Third Report on Nationality in relation to the succession of States by Mr. Václav Mikulka, Special Rapporteur. A/CN.4/480, 27 February 1997.
International Law Commission, Second Report on State Succession and its Impact on the Nationality of Natural and Legal Persons by Mr. Václav Mikulka, Special Rapporteur. A/CN.4/474, 17 April 1996.
International Law Commission, First Report on State Succession and its Impact on the Nationality of Natural and Legal Persons by Mr. Václav Mikulka, Special Rapporteur. A/CN.4/467, 17 April 1995.
A Study of Statelessness, 1949 study undertaken by the Secretary-General on the protection of stateless persons.

Literature

International Law Association, "Final Report on Women's Equality and Nationality in International Law", London Conference (2000), Committee on Feminism and International Law.
Batchelor, Carol A.*: "Statelessness and the Problem of Resolving Nationality Status", IRLJ, Vol 10, 1998.
Robinson, Nehemiah: "Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons; Its History and Interpretation. A Commentary", 1955, re–printed by DIP in 1997.
Batchelor, Carol A.: "UNHCR and Issues Related to Nationality", Refugee Survey Quarterly, Vol. 14, No. 3, 1995.
Batchelor, Carol A.*: " Stateless Persons: Some Gaps in International Protection", IJRL, Vol. 7, 1995.
Donner, R.*: "The Regulation of Nationality in International Law", Irvington–on–Hudson, Transnational Publishers, 2nd edition, 1994.
Chan, Johannes M.M.*: "The Right to a Nationality as a Human Right; The Current Trend Towards Recognition", HRLJ, Vol. 12, No. 1–2, 1991.
Weis, Paul*: "Nationality and Statelessness in International Law", Dordrecht (Netherlands), Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2nd revised edition, 1979.
Weis, Paul*: "The United Nations Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness, 1961" Vol. 11 ICLQ 1078 (1962).

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