41 Organization of American States (OAS), American Convention on Human Rights, “Pact of San Jose”, Costa Rica, 22 November 1969, available at: https://www.refworld.org/ docid/3ae6b36510.html. Art. 20: “[e]very person has the right to the nationality of the state in whose territory he was born if he does not have the right to any other nationality.” Organization of African Unity (OAU), African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child, 11 July 1990, CAB/LEG/24.9/49 (1990), available at: https://www.refworld.org/ docid/3ae6b38c18.html, Art. 6(4): “State Parties to the present Charter shall undertake to ensure that their Constitutional legislation recognize the principles according to which a child shall acquire the nationality of the State in the territory of which he has been born if, at the time of the child’s birth, he is not granted nationality by any other State in accordance with its laws.” 42 UNHCR Guidelines on Statelessness No. 4, supra, para 21. 43 Convention Relating to the Status of Stateless Persons (1954 Convention), opened for signature 28 September 1954, 360 UNTS 117 (entered into force 6 June 1960). 44 Legislative Decree 276 - Nationality Law [Syrian Arab Republic], Legislative Decree 276, 24 November 1969, available at: https://www.refworld.org/docid/4d81e7b12.html Art. 3(d) Decree No15 on Lebanese Nationality including Amendments [Lebanon], 19 January 1925, available at: https://www.refworld.org/docid/44a24c6c4.html Art 1. 45 See also: UNHCR, Good Practices Paper - Action 2: Ensuring that no child is born stateless, 20 March 2017, available at: https://www.refworld.org/docid/58cfab014.html [accessed 16 July 2019]. 46 47 Ibid, para 60. 48 Mauritanie: Loi N° 1961-112, Loi portant code de la nationalité mauritanienne, 13 June 1961, available at: https://www.refworld.org/docid/3ae6b5304.html Art. 10. 49 See e.g. Article 3(2) of the Kingdom Act on Netherlands Nationality. UNHCR Guidelines on Statelessness No. 4, supra, para 57. 50 See also: UNHCR, Good Practices Paper - Action 2: Ensuring that no child is born stateless, 20 March 2017, available at: https://www.refworld.org/docid/58cfab014.html [accessed 16 July 2019]. 51 58 See also: UNHCR, Guidelines on Statelessness No. 4: Ensuring Every Child’s Right to Acquire a Nationality through Articles 1-4 of the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness, 21 December 2012, HCR/GS/12/04, available at: https://www.refworld.org/docid/50d460c72.html [accessed 16 July 2019]. UNICEF, A passport to protection: A guide to birth registration programming, supra, p11. 52 Ibid. 53 Ibid.