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Canadian Council for Refugees Conseil canadien pour les réfugiés - Statelessness and Canada: An introduction

8 Apr 2009

They Some of the causes of statelessness: were disenfranchised by the Bhutanese > Contradictions and inconsistencies between government in the 1980s and forced to different countries citizenship laws (e.g. [...] is in theory entitled to citizenship under PAS 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless the law, but the law is applied in such a S Persons (62 States Parties, not Canada) way that the person is not recognized as a citizen. [...] Convention on the Rights of the Child (Canada is a State Party) Article 7 (1) The child shall be registered immediately after birth and shall have the right from birth to a name, the right to acquire a nationality […] (2) States Parties shall ensure the implementation of these rights in accordance with their national law and their obligations under the relevant international instruments in this fi. [...] For example, Stateless persons can end up in detention for extended Kazakhs who had been forced from their region in periods, while the Canadian government tries to the 1930s returned to Kazakhstan after the fall of the persuade a State to accept the person. [...] The court ordered the government to apologize, pay damages, Refugees (resettled or recognized in publish the ruling, and implement measures to ensure Canada) equal access to birth certifi cates and school Refugees resettled to or recognized in Canada may enrollment.

Authors

Colleen

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