Annex 2: Key International Standards
INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION ON THE PROTECTION OF THE RIGHTS OF
ALL MIGRANT WORKERS AND MEMBERS OF THEIR FAMILIES
Article 29
Each child of a migrant worker shall have the right to a name, to registration of birth and to a nationality.
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UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY RESOLUTIONS OF PARTICULAR
RELEVANCE TO NATIONALITY AND STATELESSNESS
A/Res/68/141 of 18 December 2013
The General Assembly […]
8. Welcomes pledges by States to accede to the statelessness conventions, the 1954 Convention relating to the Status
of Stateless Persons and the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness, as well as pledges to remove
reservations to them, […] encourages States that have not done so to give consideration to acceding to those
instruments, notes the work of the High Commissioner in regard to identifying stateless persons, preventing and
reducing statelessness and protecting stateless persons [...]
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Other examples available at: http://www.refworld.org/docid/4c49a02c2.html
UNHCR EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, CONCLUSION ON IDENTIFICATION, PREVENTION AND
REDUCTION OF STATELESSNESS AND PROTECTION OF STATELESS PERSONS, NO 106
Entire document
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UNHCR EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, CONCLUSION ON CIVIL REGISTRATION, NO 111
Entire document
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UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL, HUMAN RIGHTS AND ARBITRARY DEPRIVATION OF NATIONALITY:
RESOLUTION / ADOPTED BY THE HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL 11 JULY 2014, A/HRC/RES/26/14
Entire document
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UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL, THE RIGHT TO A NATIONALITY:
WOMEN AND CHILDREN, 16 JULY 2012, A/HRC/RES/20/4
Entire document
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INTERNATIONAL LAW COMMISSION ARTICLES OF NATIONALITY OF
NATURAL PERSONS IN RELATION TO THE SUCCESSION OF STATES
Entire document
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AFRICAN CHARTER ON THE RIGHTS AND WELFARE OF THE CHILD
Article 6
3. Every child has the right to acquire a nationality.
4. States Parties to the present Charter shall undertake to ensure that their Constitutional legislation recognize the
principles according to which a child shall acquire the nationality of the State in the territory of which he has been born
if, at the time of the child’s birth, he is not granted nationality by any other State in accordance with its laws.
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