l
Panama was the first State to accede the 1954 and 1961 Statelessness
Conventions after UNHCR launched a campaign promoting accession to
commemorate the anniversaries of the 1951 Refugee Convention and
1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness.
l
At the ministerial-level meeting held in Geneva in December 2011,
Argentina and Colombia pledged to ratify the 1961 Convention on the
Reduction of Statelessness, while Honduras, Peru, Nicaragua and Paraguay
pledged to ratify both this Convention and the 1954 Convention relating to the
Status of Stateless Persons. (Bolivia, Brazil, Costa Rica, Guatemala and
Uruguay are already signatories to both Conventions.) Brazil, Costa Rica and
Uruguay have each made commitments to establish national statelessness
determination procedures.
UNHCR / A. CONDE
OPERATIONAL HIGHLIGHTS
An emotional moment
when the two elder
children of this
Senegalese refugee
family resettled in
Argentina are reunited
with their parents and
siblings.
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