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identity documents to stateless persons within their territory.”
- Ref. Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness
- Article 7 (1) of the Convention on the Rights of the Child stipulates
that “the child shall be registered immediately after birth, and he/she
shall have the right from birth to a name, the right to acquire a
nationality, and, as far as possible, the right to know and to be cared
for by his or her parents.”
Cases in
major
countries
- In European countries, stateless people go through a determination
process similar to that for refugees. The relevant system differs from
country to country, but basically, the countries comply with the
European Parliament Order 2004/83/EC (4/29/2004) concerning the
protection of refugees and stateless people.
C. Core agenda items for promotion
Ⅳ-4-1. The government should overhaul the relevant laws and system to
prevent human rights infringement by making persons stateless, through
means such as decision of denationalization.
Ⅳ-4-2. Infants and children should be protected from becoming stateless.
Ⅳ-4-3. The government should ratify the Convention on the Reduction of
Statelessness (1975) to provide comprehensive guarantee of stateless
people’s human rights.
Part 4. Stronger protection of human rights of refugees and stateless people
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