ChaChapter 1: Nationality and Statelessness 3. No one shall be denied the right to acquire another nationality, having due regard for the domestic legal procedures in his country. African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (1990), Article 6:33 […] 3. Every child has the right to acquire a nationality. 4. States Parties to the present Charter shall undertake to ensure that their Constitutional legislation recognize the principles according to which a child shall acquire the nationality of the State in the territory of which he has been born if, at the time of the child’s birth, he is not granted nationality by any other State in accordance with its laws. Also contained in these regional instruments – and in their international counterparts – are some further standards relating to the enjoyment of nationality. For example, the Covenant on the Rights of the Child in Islam explicitly refers to the right of a child of unknown descent to a nationality, where the 1961 UN Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness similarly provides for the acquisition of nationality by what it terms as “foundlings” (article 2).34 The Arab Charter on 33 - See also the Resolution on the Right to Nationality, passed by the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights in April 2013, available at: http:// www.achpr.org/sessions/53rd/resolutions/234/. 34 - Foundling is a term which describes an abandoned child who is “found” 33