15. Requests the Office of the High Commissioner, in view of the limited number of States
party to these instruments, actively to promote accession to the 1954 Convention relating to
the Status of Stateless Persons and the 1961 Convention on the reduction of statelessness, as
well as to provide relevant technical and advisory services pertaining to the preparation and
implementation of nationality legislation to interested States;
General Assembly resolution 61/137 (and subsequent resolutions)
4. Notes that sixty-two States are now parties to the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of
Stateless Persons and that thirty-three States are parties to the 1961 Convention on the
Reduction of Statelessness, encourages States that have not done so to give consideration to
acceding to these instruments, 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 Assembly resolutions and Executive Committee
conclusions;
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(f) Encourages UNHCR to continue to provide technical advice and operational support to
States, and to promote an understanding of the problem of statelessness, also serving to
facilitate the dialogue between interested States at the global and regional levels;
(i) Encourages States to consider examining their nationality laws and other relevant
legislation with a view to adopting and implementing safeguards, consistent with fundamental
principles of international law, to prevent the occurrence of statelessness which results from
arbitrary denial or deprivation of nationality; and requests UNHCR to continue to provide
technical advice in this regard;
(j) Notes that statelessness may arise as a result of restrictions applied to parents in passing on
nationality to their children; denial of a woman's ability to pass on nationality; renunciation
without having secured another nationality; automatic loss of citizenship from prolonged
residence abroad; deprivation of nationality owing to failure to perform military or alternative
civil service; loss of nationality due to a person's marriage to an alien or due to a change in
nationality of a spouse during marriage; and deprivation of nationality resulting from
discriminatory practices; and requests UNHCR to continue to provide technical advice in this
regard;
(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;
(v) Encourages UNHCR to implement programmes, at the request of concerned States, which
contribute to protecting and assisting stateless persons, in particular by assisting stateless
persons to access legal remedies to redress their stateless situation and in this context, to work
with NGOs in providing legal counselling and other assistance as appropriate;