1954 Convention 1961 Convention Establishes minimum standards of treatment for stateless people in respect to a number of rights. These include, but are not limited to, the right to education, employment and housing. Importantly, the 1954 Convention also guarantees stateless people a right to identity, travel documents and administrative assistance. Establishes an international framework to ensure the right of every person to a nationality. It requires that states establish safeguards in their nationality laws to prevent statelessness at birth and later in life. Establishes that children are to acquire the nationality of the country in which they are born if they do not acquire any other nationality. International Standards and Mechanisms SA has not acceded to either UN Statelessness Conventions but is bound by other international and regional human rights instruments that protect the right to a nationality, in addition to the Constitution which guarantees that every child has the right to a name and nationality (s28) and that no citizen may be deprived of citizenship (s20).