Convention Relating to the Status of Stateless Persons

Convention Relating to the Status of Stateless Persons
Convention Relating to the Status of Stateless Persons
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Stateless Palestinian Refugees, 1948
Signed 28 September 1954
Location New York City
Effective 6 June 1960
Condition 6 ratifications
Signatories 23
Parties 68
Depositary Secretary-General of the United Nations
Languages English, French and Spanish
States parties and signatories to the 1954 Convention Relating to the Status of Stateless Persons. States parties are dark blue; non-states parties that have signed the Convention are light blue.

Contents

Surrounding events

The United Nations Charter and Universal Declaration of Human Rights were approved on 10 December 1948. Of significance, the Declaration at Article 15 affirms that

(1) Everyone has the right to a nationality.
(2) No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his nationality nor denied the right to change his nationality.

The Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees was promulgated on 28 July 1951. Despite an original intention, it did not include any content about the status of stateless persons and there was no protocol regarding measures to effect the reduction of statelessness.

On 26 April 1954, ECOSOC adopted a Resolution to convene a Conference of Plenipotentiaries to 'regulate and improve the status of stateless persons by an international agreement'.

The ensuing Conference adopted the Convention on 28 September 1954.

The Convention entered into force on 6 June 1960.

Key substantive content of convention (summarised)

Article 1
The Convention applies to stateless persons under the protection of the UNHCR but not to those under the protection of other UN Agencies. It does not apply to persons with rights and obligations acknowledged by their country of residence as indistinguishable from those attached to the possession of that country's nationality. It does not apply to war criminals or to the perpetrators of crimes against humanity or against peace. It does not apply to those who have demonstrated themselves to have been enemies of international peace and co-operation. Article 7
Contracting States shall accord to stateless persons the same treatment as is accorded to aliens generally. Article 8
No 'exceptional measures' to be taken against stateless persons in a Contracting State because of their former nationality. Article 9
Provisional measures affecting stateless persons may be taken in time of war or grave emergency where national security is at issue. Article 10
Forcible removal of a stateless person from territory of a Contracting State due to Second World War to count as residence in that territory. Article 11
Admonition of States to show sympathy to stateless seaman regularly engaged on ships of that State's flag Article 12
Personal status (eg. marital status) of a stateless person to be governed by the law of his/her domicile ahead of the law of his/her residence. Article 13
Rights to property to be no less than accorded to aliens generally. Article 14
Intellectual property rights to be no less than accorded by a Contracting State to its own nationals. Article 15
Right of association to be no less than accorded by each Contracting State to aliens generally. Article 16
Stateless persons not to be discriminated against in providing 'security for costs and eventual penalty', or otherwise by courts in Contracting States. Articles 17-19
Stateless persons to be treated at least as favourably as aliens generally with regard to participation in wage-earning employment. Articles 20-23
Stateless persons to be treated no less favourably than nationals with respect to rationing, housing, public education, and public relief. Article 24
Extension of Articles 20-23 to labour legislation and social security. Article 27
Upon request, Contracting States shall issue travel and identity documents to stateless persons within their territory. Article 29
No discrimination against stateless persons in fiscal charges. Article 30
Stateless persons to be permitted to transfer their assets to the place of their resettlement. Article 31
Stateless persons not to be expelled except on grounds of national security or public order. Article 34
Interpretation disputes between State parties to be finally referable to the ICJ Remaining Clauses
Territorial application; federal clause; signature, ratification and entry into force.

State parties

As of 23 September 2011 there were 68 state parties to the convention.[1]

Original signatories: Belgium, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Denmark, Ecuador, El Salvador, France, Germany, Guatemala, Holy See, Honduras, Israel, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Philippines, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom.

Others: Albania, Algeria, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Armenia, Austria, Australia, Azerbaijan, Barbados, Belize, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Chad, Croatia, Czech Republic, Fiji, Finland, Greece, Guinea, Hungary, Ireland, Kiribati, Korea (Republic of), Latvia, Lesotho, Liberia, Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, Lithuania, Macedonia (The Former Yugoslav Republic of), Malawi, Mexico, Montenegro, Nigeria, Panama, Philippines, Romania, Rwanda, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Senegal, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Swaziland, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Uganda, Uruguay, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

Also: Madagascar denounced its accession made in 1962, effective 2 April 1966.

Notes

See also

External links

  1. Ratifications
  2. Introduction to the Convention, its procedural history and preparatory documents

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