Saturday, 2 July 2011

STATELESS PERSONS

Statelessness

Statelessness is the legal social concept of a lack of belonging (or a lawfully enforceable claim) to any recognised state.

 

The convention relating to the status of stateless persons was signed in September 1954 .

 

It was complemented by the “statelessness reduction convention ” seven years later .


The 1954 status convention provided for the UNHCR to issue travel documents to stateless persons.

The 1961 stateless reduction convention was a significant aspiration achievement in  working to eleminate the problem of statelessness, or at least the problems associated with it.   

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