Ireland - 2012
Does statelessness serve as a ground for discrimination in access to public goods and services and/or deprivation of economic and social rights?
- Code:
- RED5
- Key Area:
- Anti-discrimination Legislation & Implementation
- Strand(s):
- Discrimination
| Short Answer |
Ireland is a signatory of the UN Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness, 1961. This convention allows signatories to ‘to elaborate the content of their nationality laws,’ though only ‘in compliance with international norms relating to nationality, including the principle that statelessness should be avoided.’ In the case of a stateless person the Minister will normally waive 2 of the 5 years' reckonable residence requiremed for naturalisation. |
| Qualitative Info |
UN Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness 1961 http://untreaty.un.org/ilc/texts/instruments/english/conventions/6_1_1961.pdf Details of Irish naturalisation procedure can be obtained fom http://www.citizensinformation.ie |
| Groups affected/interested | Migrants, Refugees, Asylum seekers |
| Type (R/D) | |
| Key socio-economic / Institutional Areas | Policing - law enforcement, Employment - labour market, Housing, Health and social protection, Education, Political discourse -parties - orgs, Political participation, Anti-discrimination, Integration - social cohesion, Daily life |
| External Url | http://www.untreaty.un.org, www.citizensinformation.ie |
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