The Plight of the Rightless: Mapping and Understanding Statelessness in Tripoli-V1.3 Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UN): Article 18 Covenant on the Rights of Child in Islam (Organization of Islamic Cooperation): Article 7 2006 Yes No 2005 Yes No (It revolves around children rights according to Shari’a only.) a nationality and as far as possible, the right to know and be cared for by his or her parents.” “Every child born with a disability has the right to a nationality.” The covenant guarantees the right to registration and nationality for every child. If their parents are unknown, the child should be “guaranteed” (Kafala) but not adopted. The State should make the necessary efforts to resolve statelessness. The Inter-American Court of Human Rights issued a landmark decision on 7 October 2005, affirming the human right to nationality as the gateway to the equal enjoyment of all rights as civic members of a state. The Court's ruling marked the first time that an regional human rights tribunal unequivocally upholds the international prohibition on racial discrimination in access to nationality. In 2011, UNHCR held a Ministerial Meeting on Refugees and Stateless Persons in Geneva to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the 1961 Convention. This resulted in 60 states signing statelessness related pledges and sharing best practices in statelessness reduction, in addition to acceding to one or two of the UN statelessness conventions.70 UNHCR’s efforts to tackle statelessness continued in 2014 as it launched its 10 year campaign to end statelessness. The campaign induced collaboration with governments to eradicate statelessness and resulted in 10 good practice papers or action plans, some of which are listed below: ● ● ● ● ● 70 Ensuring that every birth is registered, thereby helping to establish legal proof of parentage and place of birth. Removing gender discrimination from nationality laws. Establishing Standard Operating Procedures for the determination of stateless individuals and the protection of their rights. Encouraging changes to legislation or government policy (low-cost approach to address statelessness). Eliminating discrimination because of race, ethnicity, religion, gender or disability. UNHCR, Ministerial Intergovernmental Event on Refugees and Stateless Persons (2012). 63