10-Year Campaign to End Statelessness

• New Report: I Am Here, I Belong: The Urgent Need to End Childhood Statelessness, UNHCR, 3 November 2015 (also available in Spanish & French)
• Global Action Plan to End Statelessness, UNHCR, 4 November 2014
• Good Practices Paper - Action 1: Resolving Existing Major Situations of Statelessness, UNHCR, 23 February 2015
• Good Practices Paper - Action 3: Removing Gender Discrimination from Nationality Laws, UNHCR, 6 March 2015 (also available in French)
• Good Practices Paper – Action 9: Acceding to the UN Statelessness Conventions, UNHCR, 28 April 2015
• Campaign Website
• Campaign Update, January 2015; May 2015; September 2015; December 2015

Recent Accessions to the Statelessness Conventions

• Italy, 1961 Convention, 1 December 2015
• Belize, 1961 Convention, 14 August 2015
• Turkey, 1954 Convention, 26 March 2015
• El Salvador, 1954 Convention, 9 February 2015
• Peru, 1954 Convention, 23 January 2014; 1961 Convention, 18 December 2014
• Argentina, 1961 Convention, 13 November 2014
• Niger, 1954 Convention, 7 November 2014
• Mozambique, 1954 & 1961 Conventions, 1 October 2014
• Colombia, 1961 Convention, 15 August 2014
• Guinea, 1961 Convention, 17 July 2014
• Belgium, 1961 Convention, 1 July 2014
• Gambia, 1954 & 1961 Conventions, 1 July 2014
• Georgia, 1954 Convention, 23 December 2011; 1961 Convention, 1 July 2014
• Paraguay, 1954 Convention, 1 July 2014; 1961 Convention, 6 June 2012

• List of 1954 Convention States Parties & 1961 Convention States Parties & Map of States parties to the 1954 & 1961 Conventions

• Ministerial Intergovernmental Event on Refugees and Stateless Persons - Pledges 2011 (also available in French)
• Draft Overview of Pledges [Extracts Relating to Statelessness], 1 August 2013

National Legislation Relating to Nationality, Citizenship and Statelessness

• National Legislation Relating to Nationality, Citizenship and Statelessness

Legal Documents Related to Statelessness

• Convention Relating to the Status of Stateless Persons, 28 September 1954
• Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness, 30 August 1961
• Travaux Préparatoires of the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness
• Calls for accession to the statelessness conventions by the UN General Assembly and international and regional bodies, July 2013
• Extracts relating to nationality and statelessness from selected universal and regional human rights instruments, November 2009
• International Law Commission Articles on Nationality of Natural Persons in relation to the Succession of States, 3 April 1999
• Extracts of selected General Comments and Recommendations of the United Nations Human Rights Treaty Bodies relating to nationality and statelessness, November 2009
• General recommendation No. 32 on the gender-related dimensions of refugee status, asylum, nationality and statelessness of women, CEDAW/C/GC/32, 5 November 2014
• United Nations General Assembly Resolutions of particular relevance to statelessness and nationality, updated 16 May 2014
• Human Rights Council resolutions relating to nationality and statelessness (from 2006)
• Commission on Human Rights resolutions on arbitrary deprivation of nationality (until 2006)
• Compilation of recommendations relating to statelessness made during the first cycle (1st - 12th sessions) of the Human Rights Council's Universal Periodic Review, 11 July 2013
• Compilation of recommendations relating to statelessness made during the Second Cycle (13th - 16th sessions) of the Human Rights Council's Universal Periodic Review, 11 July 2013
• Statement on Parliamentary Action in Support of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and Refugee Protection, 20 April 2011
• Africa
• UNHCR & ECOWAS, Abidjan Declaration of Ministers of ECOWAS Member States on Eradication of Statelessness, 25 February 2015 (also available in French)
• UNHCR & ECOWAS, Conclusion and Recommendations of the Ministerial Conference on Statelessness in the ECOWAS Region, 25 February 2015 (also available in French)
• African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child, General Comment on Article 6 of the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child, 16 April 2014 (also available in French)
• Banjul Appeal on Statelessness, 6 December 2013
• African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights, African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights: Resolution on the Right to Nationality, 23 April 2013
• African Union, Recommendations of the African Union Symposium on "Citizenship in Africa: Preventing Statelessness, Preventing Conflicts", 24 October 2012
• Americas
• Brazil Declaration and Plan of Action: A Framework for Cooperation and Regional Solidarity to Strengthen the International Protection of Refugees, Displaced and Stateless Persons in Latin America and the Caribbean, 3 December 2014 (also available in French, Spanish & Portuguese)
• Organization of American States Resolutions on Prevention and Reduction of Statelessness and Protection of Stateless Persons in the Americas
• Europe
• Council of Europe, European Convention on Nationality, 6 November 1997
• Council of Europe, Council of Europe Convention on the Avoidance of Statelessness in Relation to State Succession, 15 March 2006
• Council of Europe: Committee of Ministers, Recommendations of the Committee of Ministers to Member States on the Avoidance and Reduction of Statelessness
• Council of Europe: Parliamentary Assembly, Council of Europe: Parliamentary Assembly, Resolutions, Recommendations and Reports on nationality

Statelessness Policy and Doctrine

• Handbook on Protection of Stateless Persons, UN High Commissioner for Refugees, 30 June 2014
• Guidelines on Statelessness No. 4: Ensuring Every Child's Right to Acquire a Nationality through Articles 1-4 of the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness, HCR/GS/12/04, UN High Commissioner for Refugees, 21 December 2012
• Expert Meeting - The Concept of Stateless Persons under International Law ("Prato Conclusions"), May 2010
• Expert Meeting - Expert Meeting - Statelessness Determination Procedures and the Status of Stateless Persons ("Geneva Conclusions"), December 2010
• Expert Meeting - Interpreting the 1961 Statelessness Convention and Preventing Statelessness among Children: ("Dakar Conclusions"), September 2011
• Expert Meeting - Interpreting the 1961 Statelessness Convention and Avoiding Statelessness resulting from Loss and Deprivation of Nationality ("Tunis Conclusions"), March 2014
• UN Secretary-General (UNSG), Guidance Note of the Secretary General: The United Nations and Statelessness, June 2011
• Human rights and arbitrary deprivation of nationality: report of the Secretary-General, December 2009
• Human rights and arbitrary deprivation of nationality : report of the Secretary-General , UN Human Rights Council, 19 December 2011
• Human rights and arbitrary deprivation of nationality : report of the Secretary-General , UN Human Rights Council, 19 December 2013
• Report on discrimination against women on nationality related matters, including the impact on children : Report of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, 15 March 2013
• UNHCR and De Facto Statelessness, April 2010
• Resettlement of Non-Refugee Stateless Persons - Extract from the UNHCR Resettlement Handbook 2011, July 2011
• Climate Change and Statelessness: An Overview, 20 May 2009
• Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons. Its History and Interpretation, commentary by Nehemiah Robinson (Institute of Jewish Affairs, World Jewish Congress), 1955 (re-printed by the Division of International Protection, 1997)

UNHCR ExCom and Standing Committee

• Conclusion on civil registration, No.111(LXIV)-2013, 17 October 2013 (also available in French)
• Executive Committee Conclusion No. 106 (LVI), 2006, Identification, Prevention and Reduction of Statelessness and Protection of Stateless Persons, 6 October 2006 (also available in French)
• Executive Committee Conclusion No. 78 (XLVI), 1995, Prevention and Reduction of Statelessness and Protection of Stateless Persons, 20 October 1995 (also available in French)
• Other Executive Committee Conclusions related to Statelessness, updated July 2010
• Update on statelessness, Executive Committee of the High Commissioner’s Programme, EC/66/SC/CRP.11, 3 June 2015
• Note on statelessness, Executive Committee of the High Commissioner’s Programme, EC/64/SC/CRP.11, 4 June 2013
• All Notes and Progress reports on UNHCR's statelessness activities
• Extracts relating to UNHCR's supervisory responsibility for the statelessness conventions
• Birth Registration: A Topic Proposed for an Executive Committee Conclusion on International Protection, 9 February 2010

Other Documents Related to Statelessness

• UNHCR Global Report 2012, chapter on statelessness (also available in French)
• UNHCR Global Appeal 2014-2015, chapter on statelessness (also available in French)
• All reports relating to statelessness by all sources