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, 32

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