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confused with the latter. One other countr y had to
face international concerns when it issued passports
which did not include information on the birthplace
of the bearers – something that, again, reaffirms that
all passpor ts are not treated the same way by the
international community.
Article 1 and 2 of the universal declaration of human
rights by the United Nations state that no distinction
shall be made among individuals on the basis of
p oli tic al , jurisdic tional or in te r national s tatus of
the countr y or territor y to which a person belongs.
Ye t the citizens of a par ticular countr y may face
discrimination in the outside world just because they
were born in a countr y not having good diplomatic
acceptance in the world.
A Nobel Peace Prize winner and a renowned
gynecologist from Africa, for instance, may not be able
to attend a medical conference in the U.K. because
of visa issues. But a high school dropout from North
America, for example, may fly to the U.K. without going
through the hassles of applying for a visa. Leaders and
seasoned businessmen from certain African countries,
for example, who want to at tend a global African
summit in the U.S. could also be refused U.S. visas
“ 在世界上众多国家的护照中
瑞
士护照非常特别 其中不包含护
照所有人真实出生地的信息 ”