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What would be going down at the G20 is 'Statelessness' - when the people know it as a lie - as Gordon Brown once knew truth afore 'metamorphosis' when he wrote '
CounterPunch 2009
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What would be going down at the G20 is 'Statelessness' - when the people know it as a lie - as Gordon Brown once knew truth afore 'metamorphosis' when he wrote '
CounterPunch 2009
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This year marks the 50th anniversary of the UN Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness, and it is a fitting time to consider the current dimensions of this terrible problem, which first gained international attention when the Nazis systematically denationalized German Jews.
Eric Schwartz: Recognizing Statelessness Eric Schwartz 2011
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Israel is obligated as an original signatory to the 1961 Statelessness Convention to refrain from acts that defeat the object and purpose of the treaty.
Danielle C. Jefferis: Waking Up Stateless in Jerusalem Danielle C. Jefferis 2011
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Secretary Clinton's passionate address regarding the plight of women, in 30 countries, who are prevented from passing on citizenship, signaled an important commitment by the U.S. to address issues of statelessness, despite not being a signatory to the 1967 Convention on Statelessness.
Charity Tooze: UN Refugee Agency Applauds U.S. Government's Pledges Charity Tooze 2011
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Policymakers and heads of state gathered in Geneva earlier this month to mark the sixtieth anniversary of the 1951 Refugee Convention and the fiftieth anniversary of the 1961 Statelessness Convention.
Danielle C. Jefferis: Waking Up Stateless in Jerusalem Danielle C. Jefferis 2011
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Secretary Clinton's passionate address regarding the plight of women, in 30 countries, who are prevented from passing on citizenship, signaled an important commitment by the U.S. to address issues of statelessness, despite not being a signatory to the 1967 Convention on Statelessness.
Charity Tooze: UN Refugee Agency Applauds U.S. Government's Pledges Charity Tooze 2011
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The 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness which provides guiding principles and legal framework to assist nations prevent statelessness, has had an even more dismissive response.
Davinder Kumar: No Country for Stateless People Davinder Kumar 2011
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Secretary Clinton's passionate address regarding the plight of women, in 30 countries, who are prevented from passing on citizenship, signaled an important commitment by the U.S. to address issues of statelessness, despite not being a signatory to the 1967 Convention on Statelessness.
Charity Tooze: UN Refugee Agency Applauds U.S. Government's Pledges Charity Tooze 2011
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Statelessness is no longer eschewed as a source of weakness but embraced as an asset.1
Two-state vs. nonstate solution Tusar N Mohapatra 2009
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