A/HRC/RES/13/2
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
14 April 2010
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Thirteenth 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*
13/2
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 nationality,
Reaffirming its resolutions 7/10 of 27 March 2008 and 10/13 of 26 March 2009, 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,
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,
Noting the provisions of 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 Civil and
Political Rights; articles 7 and 8 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child; 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
*
GE.10-12796
The resolutions and decisions of the Human Rights Council will be contained in the report of the
Council on its thirteenth session (A/HRC/13/56), chap. I.