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Professor Sanoj Rajan published a new research article:STATELESSNESS ARISING OUT OF ARBITRARY DEPRIVATION OF NATIONALITY AND PERSECUTION: AN IRREFUTABLE LINK
Date:2023-04-21

We are delighted to announce that Professor Sanoj Rajan, a Distinguished Professor of Law at the Law School has recently published a new research article that has garnered widespread attention in the legal community. The article, titled STATELESSNESS ARISING OUT OF ARBITRARY DEPRIVATION OF NATIONALITY AND PERSECUTION: AN IRREFUTABLE LINK is published in the International Relations and International Law Journal, 1(101) 2023, pp. 92-107 (Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Kazakhstan publication). The article addresses the complex issue of Rendering a person stateless can have devastating and long-lasting consequences, restricting an individual’s ability to participate in society and severely curtailing their political, civil, economic, or social rights. This article delves into the relationship between the act of rendering a whole population stateless based on factors such as religion, ethnicity, or identity, and the commission of crimes against humanity such as torture, enslavement, and extermination. It is argued that the deliberate and unjust denial of nationality to a large group of people constitutes a crime against humanity of persecution and violates international law. The connection between making a population stateless and the perpetration of crimes against humanity has frequently gone unnoticed. The paper begins with an examination of the nature of statelessness, before moving on to a discussion on how the statelessness arising out of arbitrary deprivation of nationality invariably leads to crimes against humanity. The paper concludes with a suggestion to amend the definition of the crime against humanity of persecution under the Rome Statute to act as a deterrent for future violations. 

 

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