A/HRC/RES/26/14
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
11 July 2014
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Twenty-sixth session
Agenda item 3
Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil,
political, economic, social and cultural rights,
including the right to development
Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council
26/14 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 and 20/5 of 16 July 2012, as well as 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,
Recalling articles 7 and 8 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, which
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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