• • • • • • • International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (see article 24.3) International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (see articles. 2.2 and article 3) Convention of the Rights of the Child (see articles 2, 3, 7 and 8) Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (see article 9) International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (see article 5(d)(iii)) Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (see article 18) International Convention for the Protection of All persons from Enforced Disappearance (see article 25.4) Furthermore, the right to a nationality is included in Article 15 of the Universal Declaration on Human Rights. 14. The Czech Republic is State Party to the European Convention on Nationality, but not to the Council of Europe Convention on the Avoidance of Statelessness in Relation to State Succession. The Czech Republic is bound by the EU Returns Directive and is party to all other relevant regional and international human rights treaties (with no relevant reservations), except for the International Convention on the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families. 15. The Czech Republic did not make any pledges at the UNCHR High Level Segment on Statelessness.16 Snapshot of Statelessness in the Czech Republic 16. Statelessness in the Czech Republic is mainly linked with migration and there is no information available about the in situ stateless population. UNHCR estimates there to be 1,500 stateless people in the Czech Republic, based on a mapping study of statelessness carried out in 2018 and published in December 2020.17 The population census from 2011 included the categories 'no citizenship' (1,502 people) and 'not identified' (60,208 people).18 A new census was carried out in 2021 and includes the category ‘not identified’ (29,137 people). It no longer includes the category ‘no citizenship’.19 17. The Czech Republic gathers and makes available statistical data on asylum, immigration and, to some extent, statelessness, which is disaggregated by sex (and some also by age). The Ministry of Interior reports the number of stateless people with legal residence on a monthly basis (93 stateless persons with a temporary residence permit and 401 with a permanent residence permit in September 2020).20 The Czech Statistical Office and Ministry of the Interior publish annual disaggregated data under the combined nationality categories 'stateless and not identified and other' (719 people at the end of 2020, excluding people granted asylum),21 'citizenship unknown or non16 See https://www.unhcr.org/ibelong/results-of-the-high-level-segment-on-statelessness/. UNHCR, Faces of Statelessness in the Czech Republic, December 2020. 18 Czech Statistical Office, Population census, Population by sex, type of residence, citizenship, housing arrangements, ethnicity and religious belief, 2011. 19 Czech Statistical Office, Population census, 2021. 20 Ministry of the Interior of the Czech Republic, Statistics, Foreigners with valid residence, September 2020. 21 Czech Statistical Office, Foreigners in the Czech Republic (Annual Report) 2020, (data up to December 2019. 17 4