CChapter 3: Comparative analysis of nationality laws where an additional residence requirement for the parents further restricts the effect that this provision will have in preventing statelessness and where this standard falls clearly short of Tunisia’s international commitments under the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness; and Algeria,126 where an otherwise stateless child will acquire nationality if born in the country only if the father is unknown. Given these significant gaps, the MENA region is lagging behind in effectuating its commitment to prevent childhood statelessness. Resolving this situation does not require a significant overhaul of nationality policies in the region, but rather the introduction and implementation of some very simple safeguards that would apply in the exceptional circumstance that otherwise a child will be stateless, as outlined in relevant international conventions. 3.1.4. Foundlings International law takes a special interest in the conundrum of so-called “foundlings”. This term refers to a child (sometimes interpreted as an infant or even a new-born), that is quite literally “found” and whose origins and parentage are unknown. Given that the line of descent cannot be established – nor, 126 - Article 7(2), Algerian Nationality Code, Ordonnance No. 70-86, 1970. 95