I N T E R N AT I O N A L C A L L S F O R
I D E N T I F I C AT I O N A N D P ROT E C T I O N O F
STAT E L E S S P E R S O N S
Notes the work of the High Commissioner in regard
to identifying stateless persons, preventing and reducing statelessness and
protecting stateless persons, and urges the Office of the High Commissioner
to continue to work in this area in accordance with relevant General As‑
sembly resolutions and Executive Committee conclusions.
UN General Assembly, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees:
resolution / adopted by the General Assembly, 6 March 2013, A/RES/67/149
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UN General Assembly:
Assembly of the Organisation of American States: Emphasizing that on
that occasion, several member states formally assumed specific commitments regard‑
ing their adhesion to the applicable international instruments and regarding the
adoption of measures to establish national mechanisms for determining statelessness;
(…) Recognizing that some countries of the region have recently introduced legisla‑
tive amendments or practices to determine the status of, or to provide protection
to, stateless persons; (…) resolves (…) To urge member states, without prejudice to
their ratification of, or accession to, the international instruments on statelessness,
to consider revising their domestic law or, when necessary, adopting domestic legal
provisions to prevent and reduce statelessness and to protect stateless persons (…)
Resolution of the General Assembly, Prevention and Reduction of Statelessness and
protection of Stateless Persons in the Americas, 5 June 2013, AG/RES. 2787 (XLIII‑O/13)
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Executive Committee of the High Commissioner’s Programme: (t) Requests UNHCR to actively disseminate information and, where appropriate, train
government counterparts on appropriate mechanisms for identifying, recording, and
granting a status to stateless persons; (u) Encourages States which are not yet Parties
to the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons to treat stateless
persons lawfully residing on their territory in accordance with international human
rights law; and to consider, as appropriate, facilitating the naturalization of habitually
and lawfully residing stateless persons in accordance with national legislation.
UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Conclusion on Identification, Prevention and Reduction of Statelessness and Protection of Stateless Persons, 6 Octo‑
ber 2006, No. 106 (LVII) - 2006
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