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1 See Tom Heap, Costing the Earth: The Carteret Islands—Sharks in the Garden (May 28, 2009), at http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00kj9zl; Alex Kirby, Pacific Islanders Flee Rising Seas (Oct. 9, 2001), at http://news.BBC.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/1581457.stm.
2 See Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS), Declaration on Climate Change 2009 (Sept. 21, 2009), available at http://www.sidsnet.org/aosis/documents/AOSIS%20Summit%20Declaration%20Sept%2021%20FI-NAL.pdf; BBC News, Plan for New Maldives Homeland (Nov. 10, 2008), at http://news.BBC.co.nk/2/hi/south_asia/7719501.stm.
3 Crawford, James R., The Creation of States in International Law, ch. 17.4 (2d ed. 2006)Google Scholar.
4 Id.
5 Convention on the Rights and Duties of States, Dec. 26, 1933, 165 Lnts 19; see also Crawford, supra note 3, at 45-46.
6 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, July 28, 1951, 189 Unts 150 [hereinafter Refugee Convention]; Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees, Jan. 31, 1967, 19 Ust 6259, 606 UNTS 267 [hereinafter Refugee Protocol].
7 Refugee Convention, Art. 1(2)(A).
8 Refugee Convention; Refugee Protocol.
9 Convention Relating to the Status of Stateless Persons, Sept. 28, 1954, 360 UNTS 117 [hereinafter Stateless Persons Convention]; Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness, Aug. 30, 1961, UN Doc. A/CONF.9/15 (1961) [hereinafter Statelessness Reduction Convention].
10 Stateless Persons Convention, Art. 1(1).
11 For a full list of states parties to the Stateless Persons Convention, see http://treaties.un.org/doc/publication/mtdsg/volume%20i/chapter%20v/v-3.en.pdf; for a full list of states parties to the Statelessness Reduction Convention, see http://treaties.un.org/doc/publication/mtdsg/volume%20i/chapter%20v/v-4.en.pdf.
12 See BBC News, supra note 2.
13 Id.
14 Kirby, supra note 1.
15 See New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs & Trade, New Zealand’s Immigration Relationship with Tuvalu (Aug. 4, 2009), available at http://www.mfat.govt.nz/Foreign-Relations/Pacific/NZ-Tuvalu-immigration.php.