UN REFUGEE AGENCY APPLAUDS UNITED KINGDOM’S EFFORTS TO END STATELESSNESS

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UN REFUGEE AGENCY APPLAUDS UNITED KINGDOM'S EFFORTS TO END STATELESSNESS
New York, Apr 9 2013 11:00AM
The United Nations refugee agency today
<"http://www.unhcr.org/5163ec646.html">welcomed a new determination
procedure in the United Kingdom to end legal limbo for stateless
people and legalize their presence there.

"It is a landmark step," the Chief Spokesperson for the Office of the
UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Melissa Fleming, told
journalists in Geneva.

The procedure, which came into effect on 6 April, allows stateless
people "a route to be formally recognised as stateless persons and to
legalize their presence in the UK," Ms. Fleming added.

Around 150 to 200 people each year claim asylum and are recorded as
being stateless by the UK Home Office, according to 2011 figures.

The new UK policy was created with input from UNHCR, Ms. Fleming said.
Introduction and implementation of a fair and efficient procedure to
identify stateless people in the UK was one of the key recommendations
of a 2011 study carried out by UNHCR and partnering non-governmental
organization, Asylum Aid.

A key feature of the new procedure is that it assesses if an
individual has a nationality elsewhere or if they require protection
in the UK.

Many stateless people once had a nationality but lost it when the
countries they were citizens of ceased to exist, while some have been
arbitrarily stripped of their nationality. Others have been without
citizenship since birth – for example, in countries where flawed
nationality laws mean women are not allowed to pass on nationality to
their children, UNHCR has said.

The UK has ratified both the 1954 Convention Relating to the Status of
Stateless Persons and the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of
Statelessness.

"The new procedure is also a positive example to other countries that
are parties to the 1954 Convention Relating to the Status of Stateless
Persons but which have not taken steps to implement the Convention,"
Ms. Fleming said.
Apr 9 2013 11:00AM
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