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Statement by Knut Vollebaek, OSCE High Commissioner on National
Minorities, to the 888th Plenary Meeting of the OSCE Permanent Council, Vienna,
Austria. 17 November 2011, available at: http://www.osce.org/hcnm/85212
34
See Bolzano/ Bozen Recommendations on National Minorities in Inter-State
Relations, 2008, available at: http://www.osce.org/hcnm/33633
35
See Ljubljana Guidelines on Integration of Diverse Societies, 2012, available at:
http://www.osce.org/hcnm/96883
36
See 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, 2012, available at: http://www.unhcr.org/5465c9ff9.pdf
37
Article 10 of the 1961 Convention is complemented by the International Law
Commission’s Draft Articles on the Nationality of Natural Persons in Relation to the
Succession of States, 1999, available at: http://www.refworld.org/pdfid/4512b6dd4.
pdf
38
As of 23 October 2016, there were 89 State Parties to the 1954 Convention
and 68 State Parties to the 1961 Convention. In contrast, the Convention on the
Rights of the Child, which recognizes the right of every child to acquire a nationality,
had 193 State Parties. However, virtually all States are party to more than one human
rights treaty that is of relevance to the right to a nationality.
39
UN Human Rights Council, Human rights and arbitrary deprivation of nationality: report of the Secretary-General, 14 December 2009, A/HRC/13/34, available at:
http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/docid/4b83a9cb2.html
40
UN Human Rights Council, The right to a nationality: women’s equal nationality
rights in law and in practice, 28 June 2016, A/HRC/32/L.12, available at: https://documents.un.org/prod/ods.nsf/home.xsp
41
UN Human Rights Council, Human rights and arbitrary deprivation of nationality: resolution / adopted by the Human Rights Council, 15 July 2016, A/HRC/
RES/32/5, available at: http://www.refworld.org/docid/57e3dc204.html
42
1997 European Convention on Nationality, available at: https://www.coe.int/en/
web/conventions/full-list/-/conventions/rms/090000168007f2c8
43
2006 Convention on the Avoidance of Statelessness in Relation to State
Succession, available at: https://rm.coe.int/CoERMPublicCommonSearchServices/
DisplayDCTMContent?documentId=0900001680083747
44
1969 American Convention on Human Rights, available at: http://www.refworld.
org/docid/3ae6b36510.html
45
1995 Commonwealth of Independent States Convention on Human Rights and
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