Hungary’s International Legal Obligations 9. Hungary is a state party to both the 1954 Convention Relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and the Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness (1961). It is also a party to core human rights treaties that have provisions related to statelessness including the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (1979) and the Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989). Hungary is also a party to the European Convention on Nationality (1997) and is one of the few states in the world to operate a specific mechanism for the identification and protection of stateless persons. 10. Nevertheless, much remains to be done in order to ensure the complete and effective fulfilment of the country’s international obligations relevant to statelessness. This submission focuses on some of these gaps in Hungarian law and practice, which result both in increasing the risk of new cases of statelessness in Hungary and in undermining the human rights protection of stateless persons in the country. In particular, this submission looks at:     Law and policy gaps related to the right of every child to acquire a nationality and the prevention of statelessness at birth; The lack of basic substantive and procedural safeguards in naturalisation procedures; Restrictions in access to the statelessness determination procedure and the non-provision of temporary status for applicants; and Restrictions in access to socio-economic rights, in particular, the right to employment, housing, health care, and education for recognised stateless persons. Insufficiency in the Prevention of Statelessness at Birth 11. Hungary has the following international obligations with respect to the prevention of statelessness at birth:    4 Hungary shall ensure that all children born on its territory can exercise their right to a nationality, with particular attention to those children who would otherwise be stateless;4 Hungary shall provide for its nationality to be automatically acquired by foundlings found on its territory who would otherwise be stateless;5 Hungary shall provide for its nationality to be acquired by children born on its territory who do not acquire at birth another nationality, either at birth or subsequently, to children who remained stateless, upon application (with the possibility to require maximum five years of habitual residence before submitting the application, no other conditions)6 and the period in which persons concerned 1989 Convention on the Rights of the Child, Article 7. 1997 European Convention on Nationality, Article 6 (1) (b); 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness, Article 2. 6 1997 European Convention on Nationality, Article 2 (6) (b); 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness, Article 1 (2) (b). 5