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This convention provided a definition of a stateless person (which has since become part of customary international law, according to the International Law Commission) and set out a number of rights that stateless persons should enjoy. The convention thus became the basis for an international protection regime for stateless persons.
Admonition of States to show sympathy to stateless seaman regularly engaged on ships of that State's flag. Article 12: Personal status (e.g. marital status) of a stateless person to be governed by the law of his/her domicile ahead of the law of his/her residence. Article 13: Rights to property to be no less than accorded to aliens generally ...
A stateless nation is an ethnic group or nation that does not possess its own sovereign state. [1] Use of the term implies that such ethnic groups have the right to self-determination , to establish an independent nation-state with its own government.
Stateless communism, which Karl Marx predicted would be the final phase of communism; Stateless nation, a group of people without a nation-state; Stateless society, a society that is not governed by a state; Statelessness, the legal and social concept applicable to persons who are not citizens or subjects of any state
A stateless society is a society that is not governed by a state. [1] In stateless societies, there is little concentration of authority . Most positions of authority that do exist are very limited in power , and they are generally not permanent positions, and social bodies that resolve disputes through predefined rules tend to be small. [ 2 ]
A stateless person has some time beyond attaining adulthood to seek to claim the benefit of the convention. That time is always at least three years from the age of eighteen (article 1(5)). Transfer of territory between states must occur in a manner that avoids the occurrence of statelessness for persons residing in the territory transferred.
These people are also referred to as stateless persons. Pages in category "Stateless people" The following 106 pages are in this category, out of 106 total.
A certificate of identity issued to a stateless person is also referred to as a 1954 Convention travel document, in reference to the 1954 Convention Relating to the Status of Stateless Persons. [1] 89 countries are parties to the 1954 Convention.