Key Substantive Content of Convention (summarised)
- Article 1
- The Convention applies to stateless persons under the protection of the UNHCR but not to those under the protection of other UN Agencies. It does not apply to persons with rights and obligations acknowledged by their country of residence as indistinguishable from those attached to the possession of that country's nationality. It does not apply to war criminals or to the perpetrators of crimes against humanity or against peace. It does not apply to those who have demonstrated themselves to have been enemies of international peace and co-operation.
- Article 7
- Contracting States shall accord to stateless persons the same treatment as is accorded to aliens generally.
- Article 8
- No "exceptional measures" to be taken against stateless persons in a Contracting State because of their former nationality.
- Article 9
- Provisional measures affecting stateless persons may be taken in time of war or grave emergency where national security is at issue.
- Article 10
- Forcible removal of a stateless person from territory of a Contracting State due to Second World War to count as residence in that territory.
- Article 11
- Admonition of States to show sympathy to stateless seaman regularly engaged on ships of that State's flag
- Article 12
- Personal status (e.g. marital status) of a stateless person to be governed by the law of his/her domicile ahead of the law of his/her residence.
- Article 13
- Rights to property to be no less than accorded to aliens generally.
- Article 14
- Intellectual property rights to be no less than accorded by a Contracting State to its own nationals.
- Article 15
- Right of association to be no less than accorded by each Contracting State to aliens generally.
- Article 16
- Stateless persons not to be discriminated against in providing "security for costs and eventual penalty", or otherwise by courts in Contracting States.
- Articles 17-19
- Stateless persons to be treated at least as favourably as aliens generally with regard to participation in wage-earning employment.
- Articles 20-23
- Stateless persons to be treated no less favourably than nationals with respect to rationing, housing, public education, and public relief.
- Article 24
- Extension of Articles 20-23 to labour legislation and social security.
- Article 27
- Upon request, Contracting States shall issue travel and identity documents to stateless persons within their territory.
- Article 29
- No discrimination against stateless persons in fiscal charges.
- Article 30
- Stateless persons to be permitted to transfer their assets to the place of their resettlement.
- Article 31
- Stateless persons not to be expelled except on grounds of national security or public order.
- Article 34
- Interpretation disputes between State parties to be finally referable to the ICJ
- Remaining Clauses
- Territorial application; federal clause; signature, ratification and entry into force.
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