Pursuant to its mandate responsibilities to address statelessness, in June 2014, UNHCR has issued interpretative legal guidance for governments, NGOs, legal practitioners, decision-makers, the judiciary and others working on statelessness on the definition of a stateless person, procedures for determination of statelessness and the status of stateless persons under national law in the form of the Handbook on Protection of Stateless Persons (“UNHCR Handbook”).20 UNHCR’s guidance concerning the prevention and reduction of statelessness continues to be dealt with in separate guidelines.21 The present study is a part of UNHCR’s endeavours to place statelessness issues at the centre of its advocacy work in the Czech Republic. 20 UNHCR, Handbook on Protection of Stateless Persons, cited above. 21 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. UNHCR Czech Republic 15