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The right to a nationality and the prohibition against depriving one's nationality is codified in article 15 of the "Universal Declaration of Human Rights". Article 1 of the "Convention on Certain Questions Relating to the Conflict of Nationality Laws" states: [11] It is for each State to determine under its own law who are its nationals.
Under Czech nationality law, children and some grandchildren of citizens automatically receive citizenship regardless of birth location Denmark: Danish nationality law Estonia: Article 8 of the Estonian Constitution states that every child with at least one parent who is an Estonian citizen shall have the right, by birth, to Estonian citizenship.
Conceptually citizenship and nationality are different dimensions of state membership. Citizenship is focused on the internal political life of the state and nationality is the dimension of state membership in international law. [9] Article 15 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights states that everyone has the right to nationality. [10]
[15] [16] The European revolutions of 1848, the post-World War I settlement at Versailles, and the decolonization movement after World War II shaped and established the norm in international law. [17] The American example has been seen as the earliest assertion of the right of national self-determination, although this was argued primarily in ...
Because it interferes with the right to nationality, recognized by multiple international treaties, denaturalization is a serious human rights issue. Some have argued that denaturalization resulting in statelessness is never compatible with international human rights law. [109]
In international law, a "stateless person" is someone who is "not considered as a national by any state under the operation of its law". [8] To address this, Article 15 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights states that "Everyone has the right to a nationality", and "No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his nationality nor denied the ...
Frederick E. Woodbridge was a major proponent of the Expatriation Act of 1868. The Expatriation Act of 1868 was an act of the 40th United States Congress that declared, as part of the United States nationality law, that the right of expatriation (i.e. a right to renounce one's citizenship) is "a natural and inherent right of all people" and "that any declaration, instruction, opinion, order ...
The government filed an appeal in 1992, Attorney General of Botswana v.Unity Dow making the argument to the Court of Appeal that Dow did not have standing to challenge the law, as she personally suffered no harm, and that the constitution provided no right to citizenship or the ability to pass citizenship on to offspring. [8]