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this definition become a customary international law by the observation of the International Law Commission. 7 Therefore, it binds all states to accept this legal term. Moreover, the UN convention 1954 also helps GOM to arrange and implement action plan by providing identity papers and travel documents to stateless persons. These methods have already accepted among several other non-Contracting States. 8 In international law, there are two doctrines explained about different category of statelessness as follows; (A) De jure (In law) statelessness which means that this person is legally stateless and is not recognized as national by any state (B) The second kind of this condition called “de facto statelessness” (In fact). There are three scholars 9 tried to define the term of “de facto stateless people” as “people who have not been formally denied or deprived of nationality but who lack the ability to prove their nationality or, despite documentation, are denied access to many human rights that other citizens enjoy. These people may de facto stateless-that is, stateless in practice, if not in law-or not rely on the state of which they are citizens for protection”. 10 7 United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Expert Meeting : The concept of Stateless Persons under International Law summary Conclusion, meeting held at Prato, Italy, 27-28 May 2010, available from http://www.unhcr.org/4cb2fe326.html ( Accessed 19 October 2014). 8 UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), 2012. Guidelines on Statelessness No.3 : the status of statelessness persons at the national level, HCR/GS/12/03, p. 11. available from http://www.refworld.org/ cgi-bin/texis/vtx/rwmain?docid=5005520f2 (Accessed 20 October 2014). 9 These three scholars include Goris, Harrington and Kohn 10 Andres Ordonez Buitrago.(2011) Statelessness and Human Rights : the role of the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR). EAFIT journal of International law, Vol. 2 02 p. 4. Available from http://www.eafit.edu.co/revistas/ejil/Documents/ejil-jul-dec-2011/articulo_1 [1]_2011-2.pdf ( Accessed : 19 October 2014). วารสารวิชาการนิติศาสตร์ มหาวิทยาลัยทักษิณ ปีที่ 5 ฉบับที่ 7 มกราคม - ธันวาคม 2557 