#IBelong Campaign to End Statelessness by 2024

• Campaign Update, April 2017 ; 2016 & 2015 Campaign Updates.
• 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
• Special Report – Ending Statelessness, UNHCR, 4 November 2014 (also available in French)
• Good Practices Paper - Action 1: Resolving Existing Major Situations of Statelessness, UNHCR, 23 February 2015
• Good Practices Paper - Action 2: Ensuring that no child is born stateless, UNHCR, 20 March 2017
• Good Practices Paper - Action 3: Removing Gender Discrimination from Nationality Laws, UNHCR, 6 March 2015 (also available in French)
• Good Practices Paper – Action 6: Establishing Statelessness Determination Procedures to Protect Stateless Persons, UNHCR, 11 July 2016
• Good Practices Paper – Action 9: Acceding to the UN Statelessness Conventions, UNHCR, 28 April 2015
• Campaign Website

Recent Accessions to the Statelessness Conventions

• Guinea-Bissau, 1954 & 1961 Conventions, 19 September 2016
• Mali, 1954 & 1961 Conventions, 27 May 2016
• Sierra Leone, 1954 & 1961 Conventions, 9 May 2016
• 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
• ECOWAS, Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Plan of Action on Eradication of Statelessness, 2017 – 2024, 2017 (also available in French)
• ECOWAS, Joint Statement of the ECOWAS Ministers responsible for nationality matters on the Ministerial Meeting for the Validation and Adoption of the Banjul Plan of Action to Eradicate Statelessness in the ECOWAS Region, 9 May 2017 (also available in French)
• 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
• European Parliament resolution of 25 October 2016 on human rights and migration in third countries, European Union: European Parliament, 25 October 2016
• Conclusions of the Council and the Representatives of the Governments of the Member States on Statelessness, European Union: Council of the European Union, 4 December 2015
• 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