Children and Statelessness Information Package (updated 21 January 2014) Note: This Package is for information purposes only and is not an exhaustive list of documentation. UNHCR Guidelines on Statelessness on Ensuring Every Child's Right to Acquire a Nationality These Guidelines examine the actions required by states to ensure that every child acquires a nationality. They are intended to provide interpretative legal guidance for governments, NGOs, legal practitioners, decisionmakers and the judiciary, as well as for UNHCR staff and other UN agencies. UNHCR, Guidelines on Statelessness No. 4: Ensuring Every Child's Right to Acquire a Nationality through Articles 1-4 of the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness, 21 December 2012, HCR/GS/12/04, available at: http://www.refworld.org/docid/50d460c72.html Preventing and reducing statelessness, and protecting stateless children A document co-published with Plan International examining the urgent need to protect stateless children. It identifies the causes of statelessness, the experience of statelessness for stateless children, and the legal framework that can protect stateless children. It also provides information on birth registration as a preventative measure. UNHCR, Under the Radar and Under Protected: The Urgent Need to Address Stateless Children's Rights, June 2012, available at: http://www.refworld.org/docid/514acd3e2.html Gender Discrimination and its impact on Children’s Right to Nationality UNHCR has surveyed nationality laws and identified those States which do not allow women to confer nationality to their children on equal terms with men. UNHCR, Revised Background Note on Gender Equality, Nationality Laws and Statelessness, 8 March 2013, available at: http://www.refworld.org/docid/4f59bdd92.html In 2011, UNHCR co-organized, with CRTD.A, a dialogue with women and family members affected by discrimination against women in nationality laws. The testimonies from the dialogue have compelling information on the impact of statelessness on children. UNHCR, UNHCR and CRTD.A Regional Dialogue on Gender Equality, Nationality and Statelessness: Overview and Key Findings, January 2012, available at: http://www.refworld.org/docid/4f267ec72.html The workshop with the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights reviewed a number of the known situations of statelessness in the region, before considering the international legal framework that exists in the region. Various good practices adopted by ASEAN Member States to address statelessness were identified, with a particular focus on successful approaches that had been taken to prevent and reduce statelessness among women and children.