In order for UNHCR to carry through with its statelessness mandate, it has been assigned with the mission of protecting and assisting stateless populations, providing advanced legal and humanitarian aid especially in cases where the States concerned fail to do so. Through a series of Conclusions, the UNGA reiterates the UNHCR’s mandate to identify, prevent and reduce statelessness around the world and calls on the agency to work closely with Governments in order to provide technical support and to encourage States to accede to the Statelessness Conventions.
UNHCR is also sharing important data, shedding light on statelessness as a whole. Positively, the agency is doing significant work on gathering statistics and reporting on the numbers
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In Myanmar, there is a total of 810,000 reported stateless persons, mostly belonging to the Rohingya religious and ethnic minority group. Minority communities are also affected in Thailand, which ranks second on the list with 506,197 reported stateless people. In Africa, Cote d’Ivoire alone is home to 700,000 stateless persons chiefly due to restrictive citizenship laws which exclude a great part of the population from nationality rights. Looking at Europe, the problem mostly affects the Baltic countries, which gained their independence after the dissolution of the USSR. As a result of State succession, Latvia and Estonia hold a number of 262,802 and 88,076 stateless people respectively. Similarly, other former soviet republics have thousands of stateless persons in their territories. Lastly, in the Middle East and North Africa, Syrian Arab Republic (160,000) and Kuwait (93,000) are among the states with relatively high numbers of stateless populations. This is the result either of the arbitrary deprivation of nationality from minority groups by a State’s act, as is the case in Syria, or discriminatory nationality laws which do not allow women to pass on their nationality to their
People from various ethnicities are moving and have moved, settled and become citizens of countries other than their ancestors’. Even today, there is discrimination based on looks and the parent country just as the Japanese Americans were discriminated against, although in different ways. Today, people struggle with identity problems and the problem of nationality. Like Oliver Goldsmith, there are few who claim to be citizens of not of any country, but citizens of the world. There are several who adopt and choose a country to be their own and call it their own.
The methods for measuring and reporting crime are essential not only for law enforcement but also for the general public. The three forms of reporting methods are UCR, NIBRS, and NCVS. These reports can show us whether the crime rates are dropping or continuing to grow. UCR is the Uniform Crime Report. This report serves to show a reliable group of criminal justice statistics for law enforcement.
The denial of human rights caused the region to lose much of its populations due to this horror of a government. An estimated 1.5 to
Under the traditional law, asylum was recognised as the right of the state to be conferred, in its discretion, and individual could only request for it and if granted enjoy it. Unfortunately, all the efforts to ensure right of asylum to every person fearing persecution have been forestalled by states. In the last few years U.S.A, Australia, Germany, France and other European countries to name a few, are increasingly putting into practice restrictive asylum policies in order to deter and to prevent asylum-seekers from seeking refuge in their territory.
Universal Healthcare The term universal healthcare stands for any healthcare system that is managed by the government. It may cover programs such as government hospitals and other health facilities. Universal health care ensures that all the citizens can access preventive and rehabilitative healthcare services that they need. Government management in the system includes payment or subsidizing of medical services.
According to article 2, “Each state retains its sovereignty [ the ability to make one’s own laws and govern oneself], freedom and independence, and every power, jurisdiction and right”(740), this article gives the state’s power to create any law of their own and ignore any other laws the central government
Technical support The largest issues caused by the bill are direct conflicts between U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Alaska Department of Natural Resources (ADNR). The supporters of HJR 69 boasted faulty claims for support, using a political platform created by Trump to oppose all Obama-era rules for being too liberal (Ruskin 2017). Comments in support of HJR 69 state that the prohibitions would affect Alaska residents’ access to hunting land and subsistence hunting. Proponents of the bill also voiced fears that the federal government would take state land as well as control over it, thus taking power from states.
The political aisle as well as economists spectrum exercises insightful particular distinctions of the demographic shifts on opposing perceptions of the caution on border policy undeterred by prejudices or preferences, to demonstrate the relevance cultural diversity. The pros of open border protect U.S. citizens because the government crafted a solid system is recipe founded on the enforcement of the public safety from any unforeseen disasters. Pros is that the U.S. government would be able to cut the spending on such things as border patrols, as well as customs which means a partial decrease in taxes for us citizen, to pay or at least one substitute good, Which indirectly means that there will be more money to be spent on education
Description of the legislation/policy Health information technology can advance the health of individuals and aid with the performance of providers to produce and improve quality and cost savings in patients’ health. In 2009, Congress passed, and former President Obama signed into law the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act, as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (Buntin, Burke, Hoaglin and Blumenthal, 2011). Authorized by the HITECH Act, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology’s (ONC) has worked on health IT. The Health IT created legislation and regulations to provide requirements and certification criteria that the EHRs must meet to ensure health care
INTROCUTION To translate the R2P principles to deeds will require serious commitment from all the governments who unanimously affirmed at the 2005 World Summit Outcome that “each individual State has the responsibility to protect its populations from genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity” (UN world summit, 2005). To relies a credible implementation, it is necessary that Paragraphs 138 and 139 of the Outcome which goes to the real issue of operationalizing the responsibility to protect (widely referred to as “R2P” in English) is sincerely adhered to by all. This brief paper will cover current R2P debate and the complex issue of implementing the R2P pillars which are: Pillar one the protection responsibilities of the State (sect. II).
INTRODUCTION Tent cities, camps, settlements, temporary spaces, relocation, non-citizen, guest, barricades, containers, fences, security, desert, non-fertile areas… But, home? Not really, human beings stocked. But, cities? Not really, tents with some order.
He contends that when an individual or group is denied its major requirement for identity, security, acknowledgment or equivalent investment inside of the general public, extended conflict is inescapable. To determine such conflict, it is essential that needs that are debilitated be distinguished and along these lines rebuilding of connections or the social framework happen in a way that needs of all people and groups are suited (Burton John, 1991,p82). For instance, this model can be helpful in the cases of African conflicts, for example, that of Darfur, Burundi, Dr Congo and Rwanda conflicts, where there are limitations on opportunity and support of its nationals in political and monetary
Human rights were initiated for the protection of the basic civil and political liberties in the general public. In the United Kingdom the Human Rights Act of 1998 came into force in October 2000. The aim of the HRA in the UK was to provide further legal effect to the basic rights and freedoms contained in the European Convention of Human Rights. The rights contained in the HRA not only affect essential matters of life and death, but also issues that occur in people 's daily life. Considering the broad range of basic rights covered, it is not astonishing that the HRA is viewed as one of the most significant segments of legislation ever passed in the UK.
Thesis statement Hundreds of thousands of refugees and migrants fleeing war or seeking new lives have flooded into Europe. Many countries are struggling to cope with the crisis. According the news from CNN:”Austria, Germany near tipping point”
Established in 1945 after the World War II, United Nations Security Council is the most powerful organ among the six organs in United Nations with the authorized power to issue legally binding resolutions. This council consists of 15 members, 5 Permanent Members – the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Russia and China – and 10 Non-Permanent Members voted by the UNGA for 2 years term. According to the charter, the responsibility of UNSC is to maintain international peace and security. It determines the threat to peace and act of aggressor; moreover, it investigates any disputes between the UN Member states. The United Nations Security Council also has the military force to prevent or stop the aggressor.