Submitted by rrn-owner on Wed, 2011/07/27 - 17:23
This paper re-examines the massacres which took place in the Palestinian refugee camps of Sabra and Chatila twenty-five years ago, by analysing the findings of the five separate commissions of inquiry established to look into those events: Namely, The Kahan Commission of Inquiry, the Jermanos Commission of Inquiry, the MacBride Commission of Inquiry, the Oslo Inquiry and the International People's Tribunal at Tokyo.
Submitted by rrn-owner on Wed, 2011/07/27 - 17:05
The objective of this Article is to integrate legal and social conceptions of citizenship as they materialize at the geographic, political, and social border crossings that accompany transnational mobility. Rather than pose the question 'who is the citizen?', I ask 'who is the citizen's Other?', partly as a means of surfacing what we mean by citizenship by thinking about who we designate as its alterity. Against the current of most contemporary scholarship, I commend resurrecting the concept of statelessness as an antipodal reference point for citizenship.
Do you know of people who could be stateless? If yes, we would be interested to hear from you!
We are a team working on an innovative research project being undertaken jointly by UNHCR and Asylum Aid on the issue of statelessness in the UK. The purpose of the project is to complete a detailed mapping of the number, situation and profile of stateless people in the UK and an analysis of relevant UK law, policy and practice relating to stateless
Submitted by evan on Tue, 2010/09/14 - 15:23
This report focuses on discrimination and the human rights protection of stateless persons throughout the world, with a particular emphasis on the issue of detention. The report argues that international human rights law is not sufficiently utilised to protect and fulfil the human rights of stateless persons. This is partly due to the existence of the parallel 'statelessness mechanism' in international law which affords more restricted and modest protection to the stateless.
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