IV. International legal framework and OSCE commitments
international instruments in this field, in particular where the child would
otherwise be stateless.
Furthermore, this Convention lays down the obligation of States to
respect every child’s right to preserve his or her nationality:
Article 8
1. States Parties undertake to respect the right of the child to preserve his or
her identity, including nationality, name and family relations as recognized
by law without unlawful interference.
2. Where a child is illegally deprived of some or all of the elements of his or
her identity, States Parties shall provide appropriate assistance and protection, with a view to re-establishing speedily his or her identity.
Other international human rights instruments that recognize the right
to a nationality, albeit with varying formulations, include:
— the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR,
Article 24)
— the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of
Racial Discrimination (ICERD, Article 5)
— the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination
against Women (CEDAW, Article 9)
— the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All
Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families (CMW, Article
29); and
— the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD,
Article 18).
Many human rights treaties have a greater numbers of State Parties
and, as such, also play an important role in complementing the 1954 and
1961 Statelessness Conventions.38 Moreover, the bodies created to supervise
the implementation of these treaties can examine issues related to statelessness to the degree that those issues fall under the purview of each treaty,
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