fully comply with the human right to a nationality and guarantee the rights of stateless persons on its territory. Second Cycle 8. During the second cycle, Hungary received a recommendation from Honduras to become party to, amongst others, “the Conventions on refugees and stateless persons”, which it supported.7 Hungary’s International obligations 9. Hungary is a State party to both the 1954 Convention on the Status of Stateless Persons (1954 Convention) and the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness (1961 Convention). Hungary has international obligations to protect the right to a nationality and protect the rights of stateless persons on the basis of other UN and regional treaties to which it is a party. These include the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (see article 24.3), the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (see articles. 2.2 and article 3), the Convention on the Rights of the Child (see articles 2, 3, 7 and 8), the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (see article 9), the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (see article 5(d)(iii)), and the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (see article 18). 8 Furthermore, the right to a nationality is included in Article 15 of the Universal Declaration on Human Rights. Hungary was one of the first States in the world to operate a specific mechanism for the identification and protection of stateless persons. 10. Hungary is also a party to the 1997 European Convention on Nationality (ECN) and the 2006 European Convention on the Avoidance of Statelessness in Relation to State Succession, although it retains reservations to Article 11 and Article 12 of the ECN, maintaining the right not to apply the rule that decisions be open to administrative or judicial review and the rule that decisions contain reasons in writing, impacting on procedural safeguards relating to the acquisition of nationality (with a direct impact on stateless persons’ access to Hungarian nationality). 11. In 2020, the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) urged Hungary, in light of Sustainable Development Goal 16.9, to: I. II. III. Amend its citizenship laws to prevent statelessness of children of foreign parents unable to confer their nationality on children born abroad, and of children of recognised stateless persons who have no established residence in the country. Ensure that those children are able to obtain Hungarian nationality according to a clear process and rules applied uniformly throughout the country. Increase access to counselling and social support for pregnant women in crisis situations and introduce confidential birth registration to prevent the abandonment of children and ensure their safe delivery into the child 7 UN General Assembly, Report of the Working Group on the Universal Period Review: Hungary, 33rd Session, A/HRC/33/9, 8 July 2016. 8 See: https://treaties.un.org/Pages/ParticipationStatus.aspx?clang=_en. 3