Article 5(1) attempted to eliminate change of status - such as marriage, divorce, and adoption - as a cause of statelessness, and Article 8(1) sought to contain discriminatory denationalizations that gave rise to statelessness.
Signatory states remain unable to identify stateless populations, as most states do not have mechanisms that effectively identify cases of statelessness within their own borders [ 40].
Part of the cause of Thai statelessness lies in other policies that contradict the nationality-granting efforts.
The judge said:"It appears that at the time of making the order the Secretary of State was unaware that the grant of British nationality to the appellant had caused him to lose his Iraqi nationality, and that the issue of statelessness was therefore not given the consideration it would otherwise have been given".
During the parliamentary debate, a Conservative member of Parliament, Bill Cash, cited a provision in the United Nations' Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness that could allow Britain to render a citizen stateless if he or she "declared allegiance to another state".
Britain has signed the UN convention on the reduction of statelessness, she says.
Perhaps 300,000 remain stateless.In fact, legal limbo is not an either-or condition; there are degrees of statelessness.
The UN says more than 30,000 babies born to Syrian refugees in Lebanon are at risk of statelessness.
Without official identification documents or legal claims to their property, Roma families are at increased risk of statelessness.
In these countries, the risk of statelessness is partly due to refugees being unable to properly register births.
If you want to be my citizen, keep quiet".The recent revocations could politicise the already touchy question of statelessness in the Gulf.
