UN voices concern at reports of human rights abuses in Cote dIvoire
29 December 2011 –
The United Nations
refugee agency today welcomed Georgia’s accession to a landmark global treaty that aims to
protect the estimated 12 million
people worldwide who are stateless – displaced persons with no
citizenship status with any country.
After depositing the instruments of accession last week, Georgia becomes the 71st State Party to the 1954 Convention
relating to the Status of Stateless Persons, which establishes minimum standards of treatment for stateless persons.
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