ANNEX 2: FURTHER READING International standards relating to statelessness The 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/pdfid/3ae6b3840.pdf The 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/pdfid/3ae6b39620.pdf Extracts from human rights instruments relating to nationality and statelessness http://www.unhcr.org/4517da8e2.pdf Extracts from General Comments / Recommendations by UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies http://www.unhcr.org/4517ab402.pdf UN documents UN Secretary General 2009 Report on Human rights and arbitrary deprivation of nationality http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/pdfid/4b83a9cb2.pdf Report of the Special Rapporteur on Freedom of religion or belief, Asma Jahangir, on the Elmination of all forms of religious intolerance, June 2008 http://daccess-ddsny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/N08/434/42/PDF/N0843442.pdf?OpenElement Report of the Independent Expert on Minority issues, Gay McDougall, February 2008 http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/hrcouncil/docs/7session/A-HRC-7-23.doc OHCHR and UNHCR resources UNHCR Executive Committee Conclusion No. 106 on Identification, Prevention and Reduction of Statelessness and Protection of Stateless Persons http://www.unhcr.org/453497302.html OHCHR Special Publication on the Rights of Non-Citizens http://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Publications/noncitizensen.pdf UNHCR Action to Address Statelessness – A strategy note http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/pdfid/4b9e0c3d2.pdf Nationality and statelessness – A handbook for parliamentarians http://www.unhcr.org/436774c62.pdf 37