For instance, membership of a non-government
organization or a religious body could be recognized in international law as
granting standing. The acceptance of this will open the face of citizenship to
incorporate multi-faceted connections well beyond the nation state. While
both these suggestions undermine the principle that international law says
nothing about the way a state treats its own nationals, this expression of
unfettered sovereignty has already lost much of its weight through the
development of international human rights law in the second half of the
twentieth century.