Transforming international legal principles into national law: The right to a nationality and the avoidance of statelessness

Refugee Survey Quarterly

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 8-25

  Batchelor, Carol A ^a  

^a United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees   (India)

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CITIZENSHIP; INTERNATIONAL LAW; REFUGEE;

EID: 33748855213     PISSN: 10204067     EISSN: 1471695X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rsq/hdi0142     Document Type: Article

References (22)

1. 1930 Convention on Certain Questions relating to the Confl ict of Nationality Laws, 179 LNTS 89, 99.
2. 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons, 360 UNTS 117.
3. 1957 Convention on the Nationality of Married Women, 309 UNTS 65.
4. 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness, 989 UNTS 175.
5. 1965 International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, 660 UNTS 195.
6. 1966 International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, 999 UNTS 171.
7. 1969 American Convention on Human Rights, 1144 UNTS 123.
8. 1979 Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, 1249 UNTS 13.
9. 1989 Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1577 UNTS 3.
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16. United Nations General Assembly Resolution 50/152, 9 February 1996.
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22. Inter-American Court of Human Rights, Dilcea Yean and Violeta Bosico v. Dominican Republic, Judgment of 8 September 2005, Series C No. 130.