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Convention Relating to the Status of Stateless Persons

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The Government of the People's Republic of China cannot undertake that effect will be given in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region to article 25, paragraphs 1 and 2 of the Convention, and can only undertake that the provisions of paragraph 3 of the said article will be applied in the Hong
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Kong Special Administrative Region so far as the law there allows.Within the above ambit, responsibility for the international rights and obligations of a Party to the will be assumed by the Government of the People's Republic of China.
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By a notification received by the Secretary-General on 2 April 1965, the Government of Madagascar denounced the Convention; the denunciation took effect on 2 April 1966.
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States parties and signatories to the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons. States parties are dark blue; former parties are red
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Forcible removal of a stateless person from territory of a Contracting State due to Second World War to count as residence in that territory.
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not to be discriminated against in providing "security for costs and eventual penalty", or otherwise by courts in Contracting States.
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Provisional measures affecting stateless persons may be taken in time of war or grave emergency where national security is at issue.
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Stateless persons to be treated at least as favourably as aliens generally with regard to participation in wage-earning employment.
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No "exceptional measures" to be taken against stateless persons in a Contracting State because of their former nationality.
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Upon request, Contracting States shall issue travel and identity documents to stateless persons within their territory.
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Personal status (e.g. marital status) of a stateless person to be governed by the law of his/her domicile ahead of the
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As of 2024, the United Nations, the depository of the convention, lists 98 parties to the Convention. One state, the
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was promulgated on 28 July 1951. Despite an original intention, it did not include any content about the status of
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denounced its accession made in 1962, effective 2 April 1966. The United Kingdom extended the convention to
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Contracting States shall accord to stateless persons the same treatment as is accorded to aliens generally.
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Admonition of States to show sympathy to stateless seaman regularly engaged on ships of that State's flag.
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No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his nationality nor denied the right to change his nationality.
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Intellectual property rights to be no less than accorded by a Contracting State to its own nationals.
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In addition, the notification made by the Government of China contained the following declaration:
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to "regulate and improve the status of stateless persons by an international agreement".
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Territorial application; federal clause; signature, ratification and entry into force.
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Convention Relating to the Status of Stateless Persons: Text of the 1954 Convention
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Stateless persons to be treated no less favourably than nationals with respect to
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Historic Archives of the United Nations Audiovisual Library of International Law
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were approved on 10 December 1948. The Declaration at Article 15 affirms that:
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Interpretation disputes between State parties to be finally referable to the
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to be permitted to transfer their assets to the place of their resettlement.
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not to be expelled except on grounds of national security or public order.
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The ensuing Conference adopted the Convention on 28 September 1954.
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but not to those under the protection of other UN agencies (i.e.,
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The key substantive content of the convention is listed below.
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No discrimination against stateless persons in fiscal charges.
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to be no less than accorded by each Contracting State to
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Contracting States shall facilitate assimilation and
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