Notes 33 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 106

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