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Civil and Political Rights, articles 1 to 3 of the Convention on the Nationality of Married
Women, article 9 of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination
against Women, article 18 of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, the
Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness and the Convention relating to the Status of
Stateless Persons, as well as relevant regional instruments,
Noting also general recommendation No. 30 (2004) of the Committee on the
Elimination of Racial Discrimination,
Recalling that persons arbitrarily deprived of nationality are protected by
international human rights and refugee law, as well as by instruments on statelessness,
including, with respect to State parties, the Convention relating to the Status of Stateless
Persons and the Convention relating to the Status of Refugees and the Protocol thereto,
Stressing that all human rights are universal, indivisible, interdependent and
interrelated and that the international community must treat human rights globally in a fair
and equal manner, on the same footing and with the same emphasis,
Recalling General Assembly resolution 68/141 of 18 December 2013, in which the
Assembly, inter alia, urged the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for
Refugees to continue its work with regard to identifying stateless persons, preventing and
reducing statelessness and protecting stateless persons,
Taking note of the intergovernmental event organized by the Office of the United
Nations High Commissioner for Refugees on 7 December 2011 marking the sixtieth
anniversary of the Convention on the Status of Refugees and the fiftieth anniversary of the
Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness, which guarantees the right of the child to be
registered immediately after birth and to acquire nationality, and welcoming the ongoing
implementation of pledges made by States at the said event in the field of the reduction of
statelessness, prevention of statelessness and protection of stateless persons,
Welcoming the call of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees to
eradicate statelessness within 10 years, including by preventing new situations of arbitrary
deprivation of nationality and resolving existing situations of statelessness,
Mindful of the endorsement by the General Assembly, in its resolution 41/70 of 3
December 1986, of the call upon all States to promote human rights and fundamental
freedoms and to refrain from denying them to individuals in their populations because of
nationality, ethnicity, race, religion or language,
Recalling General Assembly resolutions on the issue of the nationality of natural
persons in relation to the succession of States, in particular resolutions 55/153 of 12
December 2000, 59/34 of 2 December 2004, 63/118 of 11 December 2008 and 66/92 of 9
December 2011, in which the Assembly invited States to take into account the provisions of
the articles on nationality of natural persons in relation to the succession of States prepared
by the International Law Commission in dealing with issues of nationality of natural
persons in relation to the succession of States,
Recognizing that arbitrary deprivation of nationality disproportionately affects
persons belonging to minorities, and recalling the work done by the Special Rapporteur on
minority issues on the subject of the right to nationality,
Expressing its deep concern at the arbitrary deprivation of persons or groups of
persons of their nationality, especially on discriminatory grounds such as race, colour, sex,
language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or
other status,
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