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A Human Rights Approach to Statelessness in the Middle East

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 March 2005

Curtis F. Doebbler
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Abstract

Despite repeated attempts to eliminate statelessness and to provide for the protection of stateless persons, international law has not been able to provide an adequate response to these problems. In the Middle East the problem has continued to grow as social and political change pushes people into becoming stateless and fails to provide those who are stateless with adequate protection. The treaties that have attempted to prevent this practice have failed. At the same time the lex specialis aimed at protecting people from the consequences of statelessness have also failed. The result has been a lacuna in the protection of stateless persons. This article suggests that a step towards filling this gap might be made by applying general international human rights law to protect stateless persons.

Keywords

Middle Eastnationalitystatelessness
Type
ARTICLES
Information
Leiden Journal of International Law , Volume 15 , Issue 3 , September 2002 , pp. 527 - 552
Copyright
© 2002 Kluwer Law International

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