PRINCIPLES ON DEPRIVATION OF NATIONALITY AS A NATIONAL SECURITY MEASURE Subsequent Principles provide further elaborations on each of these limitations, which are to be individually and collectively applied and respected. This means for example, that it is not lawful for a State to abide by its obligation to avoid statelessness, by resorting to discrimination between single and dual nationals. At a time when the institution of citizenship is increasingly under threat, the Principles serve to remind us of the longstanding and strong international law framework which obligates States to respect, protect, promote and fulfil everyone’s right to a nationality; and which recognises the importance of doing so, in order to also protect other fundamental human rights. It is no coincidence that these international standards were developed in response to our shared world history in which the State’s power to deprive citizens of their nationality has been a precursor to committing the gravest crimes and unimaginable atrocities. The drafters and endorsers of the Principles hope that they will be a useful tool in the hands of the legal community and other stakeholders, to promote and protect our fundamental human rights, security and the rule of law. |3