1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness

born in Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq and Egypt over the past 3 years. According to the statement made by Zahra Albarazi, senior researcher of the Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion, to the Guardian, “a lot of those who are resettled to Europe are women whose husband or partner was killed or lost and are being resettled with their kids or are pregnant at the time, so that is becoming a bigger problem”. But the problem does not only exist during the stay of women and children Syrian refugees in the

of its law. Statelessness happens for various reasons. An individual may detached her/his nationality and is not ready to procure another one as a result of developed stay abroad or due to

Statelessness in the EU: the need for a common European framework Nowadays, most people have the privilege to travel anywhere and everywhere with a legally authorized document. However, for approximately 12 million people worldwide this is not the case and they remain stateless (Månsson). The United Nations of Human Rights defines statelessness as “Someone who is not considered as a national by any state under the operation of its law (de jure stateless) or due to inability to prove identity

statelessness, result in other human rights abuses such as domestic violence, human trafficking and child marriage. Almost half of the twenty-seven countries that do not allow women to confer their nationality to their own children are situated in the MENA region. In addition to that, many of the MENA countries are not State parties to conventions that assure crucial rights for women and children, such as the 1954 Convention Relating to the Status of Stateless Persons, 1961 Convention on the Reduction

about the fairness. In Bill C-24, it is expressed that it does not “authorize any decision, action or declaration that conflicts with any international human rights instrument regarding statelessness to which Canada is signatory” As Canada have ratified the 1961 UN Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness , this mean this new provision only applies to citizens with dual nationality. This position also expressed clearly on the Government’s website as following . "Finally, the amendments bring

Citizenship is a broad term in which has been changed and morphed into a general ideal of a person’s belonging to certain state. Although throughout history citizenship has preserved a sturdy ethical link to justice, liberty and democracy. This debate is formed around the ideas of what a person bearing should be in society. Aristotle describes the citizen as ‘One who has a share in both the ruling and being ruled’ this idea of having input into the running of the state can seen impossible and unimaginable

I realized it wasn’t that long enough when I had this conversation with a classmate about how growth, development and the complexity of technology would somehow affect the attitude and responses of an individual. It all started with a joke discussing what if one day the likelihood of a “baby-torium” would arise and man will have the capacity to shop around for a baby at his or her own convenient time and pleasure… what if food can be delivered via fax machine and just like how Polaroid camera works

I.Hypothesis and Rationale A). Hypotheis * UNHCR responds to the challenges in the protection of the refugees by increasing the cooperation resulting in the uplift conditions of Refugees today. B). Rationale * The world politics is now full of tensions, complexities, and chaotic. As we can see from the recent crisis for example, Libya (March 2011). Immediately, the number of more than 200,000 people had fled from Libya, mostly migrant workers from Egypt and Tunisia but including many more

Coming and Going: On the State Monopolization of the Legitimate "Means of Movement" Author(s): John Torpey Reviewed work(s): Source: Sociological Theory, Vol. 16, No. 3 (Nov., 1998), pp. 239-259 Published by: American Sociological Association Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/202182 . Accessed: 17/09/2012 09:05 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp . JSTOR is a not-for-profit