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• Nationality
– a legal bond having as it’s basis of
social fact of attachment, a genuine
connection of existence, interest ,and
sentiments , together with the existence
of reciprocal rights and duties.
Statelessness
• Stateless pertains to the status of having no
nationality as a of being born without
nationality or as a result of loss of nationality.
• Stateless person are often subject to human
rights violations, they may have difficulty in
accessing basic right such as education
healthcare ,employment and freedom of movement.
Refugee
-are nationals of a state, outside of his or
her own state for various reasons.
RIGHTS OF STATES
1.THE RIGHT TO INDEPENDENCE
-Means freedom from control by other state or group
of states.
1.Permanent population
- total number of people alive and living
at a given area.
2.Territory
- is a geographic space which is under
the control and sovereignty of the state. It
encompasses land territory which internal
waters and territorial sea , the air space
and the sub soil.
3.Government
- the political system by which a country
or community is administered and
regulated.
4.Capacity to enter relations with other
states
- reflects the interest degree of
independence. Article 3 of the Montivedeo
convention declares that political
statehood is independent of recognition by
other states and the state is not prohibited
from depending itself.
States are created to the following:
1.Discovery and occupation
- Occurs when a territory belonging to any state
is placed the sovereignty of the claiming state.
2. Prescription
- Is when a territory is acquired through
continuous and uninterrupted possessions over
a long period of time.
3. Cession
-Involved the peaceful transfer of territory
from our sovereign as another with the
intention that sovereignty should pass.
4. Accretion
-Is the increase in the land area of the
state , either through natural means or
artificially through human later.
5. Conquest
- The act of defeating an opponent and occupying all
parts of territory does not of itself constitute a basis
of tittle too the land.
- - it give the victor certain rights under international
law as regards, the territory at the right of
belligerent occupation, but the territory remains the
subject of the legal tittle of the ousted sovereign.
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