www.soros.org/initiatives/justice/focus/equality_citizenship/articles_publications/publications/children-right-nationality-20110202

http://www.crin.org/docs/children-right-nationality-20110202.pdf

A child's right to acquire a nationality is evident in the Convention on the Rights of the Child—the main United Nations treaty governing states' human rights obligations towards children. But the way states are supposed to interpret and implement that right is unclear.

In this document, the Open Society Justice Initiative urges the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child—the body that interprets the Convention—to issue a General Comment. The comment would clarify and emphasize the obligation that governments bear for stateless children and would raise the profile of the issue in high-level discussion. 

Additional Information: 

• Editorial on children and statelessness [CRIN, September 2010]
• CRIN's page on stateless children
• STATELESSNESS: Nationality Rights for All - A progress report and global survey on statelessness [Refugees International, March 2009] 

Previous CRIN Guides and Toolkits items

• 27/01/2011: Jargon of the week: **Complementarity**
• 19/01/2011: Jargon of the week: **Harmonise**
• 16/12/2010: Jargon of the week: **Technical support**
• 25/11/2010: Jargon of the week: **Modalities**
• 12/11/2010: Complaints Mechanism: Updated Advocacy Toolkit

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Open Society Justice Initiative

Last updated 04/02/2011 09:09:06

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