MOVING STATELESSNESS FORWARD 1 195 Introduction This short paper aims at shedding more light on certain aspects of the recent re-emergence of the issue of statelessness on the international agenda.1 I wish to add another perspective to this discussion on moving statelessness onto the international advocacy agenda (‘issue emergence’), notably from a government’s point of view: what a government can do in order to address statelessness through foreign policy initiatives and to highlight the issue of protecting the stateless in different international fora and in bilateral relations. Hungary is a good example for that, being party to all relevant international conventions on the protection of the stateless and on the reduction, avoidance and prevention of statelessness. These multilateral instruments are, on the universal level, the 1954 New York Convention on the Status of Stateless Persons,2 the 1957 UN Convention on the Nationality of Married Women,3 as well as the 1961 UN Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness;4 then on the regional level, the 1997 European Convention on Nationality5 and the 2006 Council of Europe Convention on the Avoidance of Statelessness in relation to State Succession.6 All these international conventions have become an integral 1 See e.g. Lindsey Kingston, ‘Moving Statelessness Forward on the International Human Rights Agenda’ <www.statelessness.eu/blog/moving-statelessness-forward-international-human -rights-agenda#sthash.Ml6IGcbe.dpuf> accessed 15 September 2013; Lindsey Kingston, ‘“A Forgotten Human Rights Crisis”: Statelessness and Issue (Non)Emergence’ (2013) 14 Human Rights Review 73; Lindsey Kingston, ‘Statelessness and issue (non-)emergence’ (2012) 40 Forced Migration Review 50. On the emergency studies e.g. Charli R. Carpenter, ‘Setting the Advocacy Agenda: Theorizing Issue Emergence and Nonemergence in Transnational Advocacy Networks’ (2007) 51 International Studies Quarterly 99. 2 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons (adopted 28 September 1954, entered into force 6 June 1960) 5158 UNTS 360, 117. Promulgated (incorporated) in Hungary by Act II of 2002 (entered into force in relation to Hungary on 21 November 2001). 3 Convention on the Nationality of Married Women (adopted 20 February 1957, entered into force 11 August 1958) 4468 UNTS 309, 65. Promulgated (incorporated) in Hungary by LawDecree No. 2 of 1960 (entered into force in relation to Hungary on 3 December 1959). 4 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness (adopted 30 August 1961, entered into force 13 December 1975) 14458 UNTS989, 175. Promulgated (incorporated) in Hungary by Act XV of 2009 (entered into force in relation to Hungary on 12 August 2009). 5 European Convention on Nationality. Promulgated (incorporated) in Hungary by Act III of 2002 (entered into force in relation to Hungary on 1 March 2002). 6 Council of Europe Convention on the Avoidance of Statelessness in relation to State Succession. Promulgated (incorporated) in Hungary by Act XCVIII of 2008 (entered into force in relation to Hungary on 1 May 2009). The Convention entered into force on the international plane with Hungary’s ratification. tilburg law review 19 (2014) 194-202