Statelessness

The precarious legal status of refugee fathers places their children at further risk of statelessness, according to Dr Laura Van Waas, co-director of the Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion in the Netherlands.

Statelessness is not a widely known issue.

The statelessness of the Jewish past, after all, still describes the Palestinian present.

In 2014, UNHCR launched the Campaign to End Statelessness in 10 Years.

A citizens’ register in Assam finalized this year left 1.9 million people, many of them Muslims, facing possible statelessness, detention camps and even deportation.

Although the nationality status of the approximately 1.9 million people left off the National Register of Citizens is not known, many are at risk of statelessness if they do not have another nationality, the UNHCR warned.

Conspicuously absent from the talks, however, was a concrete plan to address the issue of statelessness.

He said the ministry’s move in response to the discovery of a syndicate selling MyKad and birth certificates to foreigners would exacerbate the issue of statelessness in Sarawak, especially for those residing in the remote areas.

Palestinians will be unlikely to accept such an offer since feeding their children today would condemn these children to a life of exile, poverty and statelessness.

The commission recommended that the government end enforced segregation of Rakhine Buddhists and Rohingya Muslims, ensure full humanitarian access, tackle Rohingya statelessness, “revisit” the 1982 Citizenship Law and punish perpetrators of abuses.

Australia is a party to both the 1954 convention on the status of stateless persons and the 1961 convention on the reduction of statelessness.

Due to their statelessness, most countries are reluctant to consider the Rohingya as refugees and often label them as ‘economic migrants’.

Jose Antonio-Canhandula, UNHCR, Nigeria Country Representative and Minister of Interior, Abdulrahman Dambazau, made the call in Abuja on Friday, at the commemoration of the fourth anniversary of the global IBelong campaign to end statelessness.

Since Doe is reported to be a dual citizen of both the United States and Saudi Arabia, the question of statelessness is not squarely presented here (and there is no evidence that the U.S. wishes to take away his citizenship).

The passports have enabled the United Arab Emirates to airbrush its statelessness problem without signing onto the relevant international conventions, or granting its residents civil liberties or political rights.

Countries that have acceded to the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness will grant nationality to otherwise stateless persons who were born on their territory, or on a ship or plane flagged by that country.