ChaChapter 1: Nationality and Statelessness are found in instruments such as the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights or the Arab Charter on Human Rights, are for everyone, including stateless people. There are just a few treaty-based exceptions, where particular rights may be reserved to nationals, such as with regard to the right to participate in government. Otherwise, nationals and non-nationals – including stateless people – should enjoy human rights, without discrimination.38 In order to assure that stateless people ensure a minimum standard of treatment, the United Nations has also developed an instrument aimed specifically at the protection of the stateless: the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons. This provides us with the definition of a stateless person – as already discussed above – and outlines which rights are to be provided to people who meet this definition. Among its provisions are a number of special measures which are designed to ease some of the problems which stateless people often encounter precisely due to their lack of any nationality. For example, it provides for the issuance of identity and travel documents to the stateless, which will help to alleviate many of 38 - For a more detailed discussion of the rights of nationals versus nonnationals, as well as the meaning of discrimination in the context of distinctions based on nationality, see OHCHR, The rights of non-citizens, 2006. 35