Statelessness and human rights: the role of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
Autor | Andrés Ordoñez Buitrago |
Cargo | Second-year Law student at EAFIT University (Medellín, Colombia) |
Páginas | 7-23 |
STATELESSNESS AND HUMAN RIGHTS:
By: Andrés Ordoñez Buitrago1
THE ROLE OF THE UNITED NATIONS HIGH
COMMISSIONER FOR REFUGEES (UNHCR)
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Abstract:
Statelessness, the condition of not being a national from any State, is one of the most serious
but unknown violations of Human Rights, and that is the reason why the United Nations have
been increasingly motivated to deal with this problem. The most important instruments of
international law related to the statelessness issue are the 1954 Convention relating to the Status
of Stateless Persons and the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness. Even though
only a few States: 66 the former and 38 the latter. However, in the past decades there has been
a very important action of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) –the
competent authority in the matter within the UN System– related to statelessness. The work
reduction and protection. With the support of the UNHCR, some States like Sri Lanka (former
Ceylon), Estonia and Latviahave been able to successfully reduce the cases of statelessness
and in this way they have improved the Human Rights situation in these countries.
Key words:
Statelessness; UNHCR; right to a nationality; Human Rights.
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Journal of International Law
STATELESSNESS AND HUMAN RIGHTS: THE ROLE OF THE UNITED NATIONS HIGH
COMMISSIONER FOR REFUGEES (UNHCR)
Vol. 2, 02. | July - December 2011 Colombia
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Journal of International Law
Resumen:
La apatridia, la condición de no ser nacional de ningún Estado, es una de las más serias
pero desconocidas violaciones a los Derechos Humanos y por esa razón las Naciones Unidas
se han visto crecientemente motivadas para enfrentar este problema. Los instrumentos
internacionales más importantes sobre el tema de la apatridia son la Convención sobre el
estatuto de los apátridas de 1954 y la Convención para reducir los casos de apatridia de
1961. Si bien estas convenciones no imponen obligaciones excesivas a los Estados parte, sólo
Ceilán), Estonia y Letoniahan logrado reducir los casos de apatridia y de esta manera han
mejorado la situación de los Derechos Humanos en estos países.
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