Article 15(2) of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (“UDHR”) proclaims that no one can be “denied the right to change his nationality.” Following the UDHR’s promulgation in 1948, the general right to have a citizenship, and thus to preclude statelessness, was developed substantially through several major international agreements. However, the right to renounce citizenship implicit in the UDHR’s explicit promise of “the right to change” nationality remained underdeveloped. This Note surveys the contemporary state of the norm.
Savannah Price