A/HRC/10/34 page 19 67. UNHCR recommended that, where national legislation allows for deprivation of nationality, States must include safeguards to ensure that such deprivation not be arbitrary. States should, in particular: (a) establish procedural standards, notably issue reasons in writing and grant the right to a review to a court or an independent body; and (b) establish substantive standards, notably prohibit deprivation of nationality based on discriminatory grounds, in particular on grounds of race, colour, gender, religion, political opinion or national or ethnic origin; and prohibit deprivation of nationality resulting in statelessness on grounds other than those foreseen in the Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness and where such a deprivation is not in conformity with the principle of proportionality, taking in particular into account the consequences of statelessness and the quality of the link between State and individual. 68. Furthermore, UNHCR recommended that States must provide effective remedies for all persons who have been arbitrarily deprived of their nationality, in particular restoration of nationality, and where applicable, provision of identity documents, correction of registries and facilitating proof of identity. 69. UNHCR also recommended that States should take all appropriate measures to prevent arbitrary denial of acquisition of a nationality. States must not deny acquisition of their nationality based on discriminatory grounds, in particular on grounds of race, colour, gender, religion, political opinion or national or ethnic origin. States should grant nationality to all persons born on their territory who would otherwise be stateless. 70. Finally UNHCR urged States, pursuant to resolutions of the General Assembly and Human Rights Council as well as conclusions of the Executive Committee of UNHCR, to accede to the 1954 Convention on the Status of Stateless Persons and the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness which currently have respectively 63 and 35 States parties. States are also urged to accede to relevant universal and regional human rights instruments and, where applicable, to withdraw reservations to provisions on nationality issues. III. REPLIES RECEIVED FROM NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS Refugees International 71. Refugees International submitted a series of its recently produced reports, releases and press articles detailing the situation, inter alia, of stateless Biharis in Bangladesh, of stateless Biduns in United Arab Emirates and Kuwait, of stateless Kurds in the Syrian Arab Republic, of stateless persons in Senegal, of undocumented children in Malaysia, of stateless persons in Kyrgyzstan, and of stateless persons in the Dominican Republic. Refugees International also submitted its report, “Lives on hold: the human cost of statelessness”, which highlights protracted cases of statelessness in Bangladesh, Estonia and the United Arab Emirates. -----