Prior to the resolution of the statelessness situation, the husband of this 20-year-old Urdu-speaking girl left her to marry a local woman in the hope of obtaining Bangladeshi citizenship. The girl is going blind and has no family to help support her and her baby. She makes paper bags for money. This vulnerable group can receive better protection through the training of government officials directly involved in the issue; the encouragement to ALL states — convention signatories or not — to respect international law, implement legal friendly remedial solutions and facilitate the naturalization of stateless people. The detention of people solely on the basis of their statelessness is vigorously discouraged. UNHCR promotes the reduction of statelessness through such actions as socially integrating long-term stateless people, safeguarding the right of every child to a nationality and the dissemination of information on citizenship and naturalization procedures. Analysis is regularly undertaken on related issues such as relevant national legislation and practices, arbitrary deprivation of nationality, state succession, administrative obstacles to registration, issuance of identity documents and determination of states. As a result of such analysis, UNHCR can both assist governments to implement appropriate legislation and strengthen protection safeguards for the vulnerable. THE WORLD’S STATELESS PEOPLE • 2011 7