Prevention and Reduction of Statelessness and Protection of Stateless Persons 1995, para. (b)
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Paragraph text
Calls upon States to adopt nationality legislation with a view to reducing statelessness, consistent with fundamental principles of international law, in particular by preventing arbitrary deprivation of nationality, and by eliminating provisions which permit the renunciation of a nationality without the prior possession or acquisition of another nationality;
Legal status
Negotiated soft law
Body
Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
Document type
ExCom Conclusion
Means of adoption
N.A.
Topic(s)
Civil & Political Rights
Governance & Rule of Law
Social & Cultural Rights
Person(s) affected
All
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Year
1995
Paragraph type
OP
Reference
ExCom Conclusion No. 78, Prevention and Reduction of Statelessness and Protection of Stateless Persons (1995), OP (b).