Submissions and Briefing Notes

Submissions

Inquiry into the Australia-Tuvalu Falepili Union Treaty. Submission to the Joint Standing Committee on Treaties. April 2024
Inquiry into the Migration Amendment (Removal and Other Measures) Bill 2024. Submission to the Senate Legal and Constitutional Affair Legislation Committee. April 2024
Review of the amendments made by the Australian Citizenship Amendment (Citizenship Repudiation) Bill 2023 (PDF 274.6 KB) Submission to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security. February 2024
Australia should adopt a Human Rights Act to protect the rights of stateless people, including children (PDF 450.7 KB) Submission to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights - Inquiry into Australia's Human Rights Framework. June 2023
Submission to the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (PDF 378.9 KB) in response to its call for input regarding the Thematic Report for the 78^th session of the UN General Assembly, October 2023 - Nexus between Violence against Women and Girls, Nationality Laws, and Statelessness - of the UN Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women and Girls. May 2023
Submission to the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (PDF 283.7 KB) in response to its call for inputs regarding the UN Secretary-General's report on the Human Rights of Migrants. May 2023
Children, Climate Mobility and Statelessness (PDF 307.2 KB): In partnership with the Kaldor Centre and UTS, this submission to the Committee on the Rights of the Child recommends that a Draft General Comment on the Environment and Climate Change include specific language about the protection of children who are displaced (or at risk of displacement) or stateless (or at risk of becoming stateless) in the context of climate change, disasters or environmental degradation. March 2023
Joint submission to the UN Human Rights Council (PDF 591.1 KB) for Australia’s Universal Periodic Review with partners ISI; RACS and SNAP. July 2020
Response to World Bank ID4D call for consultation on Principles on Identification for Sustainable Development. (PDF 230.6 KB) March 2020
Submission to the Legal and Constitutional Affairs References Committee (PDF 4.7 MB) in relation to its Inquiry into Nationhood, national identity and democracy November 2019
Submission to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security (PDF 2.2 MB) in relation to its Review of the Australian Citizenship Amendment (Citizenship Cessation) Bill 2019 October 2019
Submission to the Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee (PDF 3.5 MB) in relation to the Migration Amendment (Repairing Medical Transfers) Bill 2019 August 2019
Submission to the Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee (PDF 3.5 MB) in relation to the Migration Legislation Amendment (Regional Processing Cohort) Bill 2019 [Provisions] August 2019
Submission to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security (PDF 3.0 MB) in relation to its Review of the Australian Citizenship renunciation by conduct and cessation provisions August 2019
Submission to the Legal and Constitutional Affairs Legislation Committee (PDF 1.6 MB) in relation to the Migration Amendment (Strengthening the Character Test) Bill 2019. August 2019
Submission to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security (PDF 1.1 MB) in relation to the Counter-Terrorism (Temporary Exclusion Orders Bill). March 2019
Submission to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security (PDF 4.2 MB), as contribution to its Advisory Report on the Australian Citizenship Amendment, January 2019
Submission to the Special Rapporteur on Minority Issues (PDF 168.5 KB) regarding Statelessness and legal identity issues among ethnic Vietnamese minority populations in Cambodia, in partnership with Minority Rights Organization (MIRO), Cambodia, May 2018

Briefing Notes

Malaysia's proposed amendments to citizenship provisions in its Federal Constitution

Published 17 October 2023

If passed into law, most of the recent amendments proposed by the Malaysian Government to citizenship provisions in Malaysia’s Federal Constitution will have a deleterious impact in terms of reducing the number of cases of statelessness in the country and from preventing new cases from arising. On the contrary, statelessness (particularly cases of statelessness amongst children and intergenerational statelessness) is likely to increase. Childhood statelessness can significantly stunt a child’s development: lack of citizenship typically means that children cannot access basic services, including education and healthcare, increases their exposure to harmful and exploitative practices such as trafficking or indefinite detention, and severely curtails their future employment prospects and prosperity.

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Citizenship (Amendment) Act 2019 and International Law

Published 1 April 2021

A Legal Brief prepared by the Peter McMullin Centre on Statelessness, the Asian Law Centre, and the Institute for International Law and the Humanities.

This legal brief considers the Citizenship (Amendment) Act 2019 (‘CAA’) and its compliance with India’s international legal obligations. India’s treaty and customary obligations are outlined, with a primary focus on the conflict between the CAA and the principles of non-discrimination and the prohibition on arbitrary deprivation of nationality.

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Citizenship, Constitutionalism and Civil Liberties - A Briefing Note on Recent Developments in India

Published 17 July 2020
Revised 4 August 2020

Indian Citizenship and Statelessness Research Project Briefing Note prepared by the Peter McMullin Centre on Statelessness and the Asian Law Centre.

India’s Constitution commits it to democracy, equality, secularism, asymmetrical federalism and the protection of civil liberties, including freedom of speech and religious freedom. Nevertheless, each of these commitments is now under threat from authoritarian nationalism.

This note offers a brief summary of developments in India, primarily over 2019-2020, relating to (I) risks of statelessness and (II) authoritarian nationalism.

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