Human Rights and the Status of Stateless Person
![handle is hein.journals/ijlmhs15 and id is 1066 raw text is: International Journal of Law) Management & Humanities
Human Rights and the Status of Stateless
Person
DEEKSHA TEWARII
ABSTRACT
Nationality, Citizenship and Human Rights are all interconnected areas which play a vital
role in the life of a human being. The denial of Nationality or the loss of Citizenship both
will have impact on human being as there increases the chances of becoming Stateless and
thereby falling into the gaps which prevail in the society that it becomes impossible to get
out of it and live a life that is not just a mere animal existence. Statelessness is a situation
where the person does not belong to any nation, he does not have a citizenship of any State
and he loses his fundamental rights which are incidental to these main rights. Nationality
is the sense of belongingness to a particular State who is in a way guardian of the
fundamental rights of its citizen and the citizen gets a right to come to the court and assert
those rights and demand for the relief when their rights get infringed by the other
individual. Rights and duties are interconnected if one does not come to court with clean
hands, he cannot assert the law to provide him the relief The definition of Stateless person
is provided in the Convention relating to status of Stateless person 1954 as a person who
do not belong to any of the State. In this paper researcher will examine How far the
Convention on the status of Refugee as well as the Convention on Stateless person been
helpful in prevention of the violation of Human Rights.
Keywords: Nationality, Citizenship, Human Rights, Statelessness, Stateless Persons.
I. INTRODUCTION
The International Human Rights law recognizes the right to nationality to all i.e., every
individual born on earth should acquire, withdraw, or retain the nationality. As a person without
nationality is rendered vulnerable. Nationality is the connection a bond which an individual
shares with the State in which he/she takes birth. It is the tie which gives a sense of security to
individual where his right to rights is protected as very well said by Hannah Arendt in the
interview given to The New Yorker Columnist. It is the right to belong to a particular Country
to reside, to work to live life with dignity and get all the benefits as a citizen of the State.
Though Nationality and Citizenship sound very similar but they are little different. In the case
1 Author is an Assistant Professor at IILM University, Gurgaon, India.
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