ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the content and significance of Article 15 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). It traces the evolution of the international community's approach to nationality 'problems', with a particular focus on its response to statelessness. The chapter explains how nationality emerged from the reserved domain of states to become an individual human right, with the adoption of the UDHR as a key–although not the only–watershed in this process. It looks at what realising the right to a nationality demands of states: an examination is made of the progressive development of norms that give further content to the right to a nationality. The chapter focuses on emerging developments in respect of the right to a nationality and the international community's response to statelessness. It discusses nationality problems commanded considerable attention from the international community, but also the development of dedicated conventions to deal with statelessness.
