A/HRC/RES/32/5
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
15 July 2016
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Thirty-second session
Agenda item 3
Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council on 30 June 2016
32/5.
Human rights and arbitrary deprivation of nationality
The Human Rights Council,
Guided by the purposes, principles and provisions of the Charter of the United
Nations,
Guided also by article 15 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, according
to which everyone has the right to a nationality and no one shall be arbitrarily deprived of
his or her nationality,
Reaffirming its resolutions 7/10 of 27 March 2008, 10/13 of 26 March 2009, 13/2 of
24 March 2010, 20/4 of 5 July 2012, 20/5 of 16 July 2012 and 26/14 of 26 June 2014, and
all previous resolutions adopted by the Commission on Human Rights on the issue of
human rights and the arbitrary deprivation of nationality,
Reaffirming also its resolution 19/9 of 22 March 2012, in which it took into
consideration the fact that persons without birth registration may be vulnerable to
statelessness and associated lack of protection,
Recognizing the authority of States to establish laws governing the acquisition,
renunciation or loss of nationality in accordance with international law, and noting that the
issue of statelessness is already under consideration by the General Assembly within the
broad issue of State succession,
Reaffirming the importance of the Convention on the Status of Stateless Persons and
the Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness as a means of preventing and reducing
statelessness and ensuring the protection of stateless persons,
Recalling the Convention on the Rights of the Child, in particular its articles 3, 7 and
8, which recognize the principle of the best interests of the child and guarantee the right of
the child to be registered immediately after birth and to acquire nationality,
Noting the provisions of other international human rights instruments and
international instruments on statelessness and nationality recognizing the right to acquire,
change or retain nationality or prohibiting arbitrary deprivation of nationality, inter alia,
article 5, paragraph (d) (iii), of the International Convention on the Elimination of All
Forms of Racial Discrimination, article 24, paragraph 3 of the International Covenant on
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