xlvii International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, opened for signature 7 March 1966, 600 UNTS 195 (entered into force 4 January 1969) (‘ICERD’). Australia ratiFied the ICERD on 30 September 1975: UN Treaty Collection, 2. Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, 1, available at <https://treaties.un.org/doc/Publication/MTDSG/Volume%20I/Chapter%20IV/IV-2.en.pdf>. xlviii Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, opened for signature 18 December 1979, 1249 UNTS 13 (entered into force 3 September 1981) (‘CEDAW’). Australia ratiFied the CEDAW on 28 July 1983: UN Treaty Collection, 8. Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, 1, available at <https://treaties.un.org/doc/Publication/MTDSG/Volume%20I/Chapter%20IV/IV-8.en.pdf>. xlix Convention on the Rights of the Child, opened for signature 20 November 1989, 1577 UNTS 3 (entered into force 2 September 1990) (‘CRC’). Australia ratiFied the CRC on 17 December 1990: UN Treaty Collection, 11. Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1, available at <https://treaties.un.org/doc/Publication/MTDSG/Volume%20I/Chapter%20IV/IV-11.en.pdf>. l Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, opened for signature 30 March 2007, 2515 UNTS 3 (entered into force 3 May 2008) (‘CRPD’). Australia ratiFied the CRPD on 17 July 2008: UN Treaty Collection, 15. Convention of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, 1 <https://treaties.un.org/doc/Publication/MTDSG/Volume%20I/Chapter%20IV/IV-15.en.pdf>. li Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness, opened for signature 30 August 1961, 989 UNTS 175 (entered into force 13 December 1975) (‘1961 Statelessness Convention’). lii Australian Citizenship Act 2007 (Cth) s 21(8). liii Foster, McAdam and Wadley (n xlvi) 416. liv United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Global Trends: Forced Displacement in 2023 (Report, 15 June 2024), available at <https://www.unhcr.org/global-trends>. lv PMCS is currently undertaking the First ‘mapping’ study of statelessness in Australia, with the aim of better identifying the numbers, location and protection needs of stateless persons in Australia. lvi Robertson and Dale (n i) 5. lvii Sarah Dale is the Centre Manager and Principal Solicitor at the Refugee Advice Casework Service: ‘Our Leadership Team’, Refugee Advice & Casework Service (RACS) (Web Page) <https://www.racs.org.au/our-team>. lviii Ibid 14. lix Ibid 15. lx Ibid. lxi Ibid. lxii Ibid 14. lxiii Foster, McAdam and Wadley (n xlvi) 416. By the end of 2022 there were 8314 people identiFied as stateless in Australia, however, in absence of an SDP this Figure is limited to stateless persons held in immigration detention and those self-identifying as stateless through the ‘Onshore Humanitarian Visa’ application process and is therefore ‘not an estimate of statelessness in Australia’: UNHCR (n lix), ‘Annex Table 5: Persons under UNHCR’s statelessness mandate: 2022’. lxiv Fadi Chalouhy, quoted in ‘Stateless Legal Clinic’, Melbourne Law School (Web Page) <https://law.unimelb.edu.au/centres/statelessness/engage/stateless-children-legal-clinic>. 90