Abstract

FIGUERA VARGAS, Sorily Carolina  and  ROBLES ARIAS, Johana. Nationality as a human right: The Satya case of Ecuador. Justicia [online]. 2019, n.35, pp.48-62. ISSN 0124-7441.  https://doi.org/10.17081/just.24.35.3387.

Nationality is a universal human right enshrined in the main international conventions in force in the Americas. After the Constitutional Court of Ecuador issued Judgment No. 184-18-SEP-CC, dated May 29, 2018, regarding the Satya case, the following analysis is relevant in terms of the study of nationality, its definition, its principles, its international regulation, which have been some of the criteria of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in relation to this legal figure, how Ecuador regulates nationality in its legal system. To finally proceed to the dissertation on the aforementioned sentence in relation to nationality as a human right and its connection with the right to identity and the supreme interest of children. Thus, a jurisprudential research method will be developed to reach conclusions on this debate.

Keywords : nationality; identity; human rights; Constitutional Court of Ecuador and Ecuadorian legal system.

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