Rights (ICCPR),25 the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC),26 the International Convention
on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination,27 the Convention on the Elimination of
All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW),28 the Convention on the Nationality
of Married Women,29 the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities,30 and the
International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of
Their Families.31 The issue of nationality is also covered by the Convention relating to the Status
of Refugees (“1951 Convention”), over which UNHCR exercises its supervisory role.32 Although
an individual can be both stateless as per the 1954 Convention and a refugee as per the 1951
Convention, at a minimum, a stateless refugee must benefit from the protection of the 1951
Convention and international refugee law.
25
UN General Assembly, International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, 16 December 1966, United Nations, Treaty
Series, vol. 999, p. 171, available at: https://www.refworld.org/docid/3ae6b3aa0.html
26
UN General Assembly, Convention on the Rights of the Child, 20 November 1989, United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1577,
p. 3, available at: https://www.refworld.org/docid/3ae6b38f0.html
27
UN General Assembly, International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, 21 December 1965,
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 660, p. 195, available at: https://www.refworld.org/docid/3ae6b3940.html
28
UN General Assembly, Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, 18 December 1979,
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1249, p. 13, available at: https://www.refworld.org/docid/3ae6b3970.html
29
UN General Assembly, Convention on the Nationality of Married Women, 29 January 1957, available at:
https://www.refworld.org/docid/3ae6b3708.html
30
UN General Assembly, Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, 13 December 2006, A/RES/61/106, Annex I,
available at: https://www.refworld.org/docid/4680cd212.html
31
UN General Assembly, International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their
Families, 18 December 1990, A/RES/45/158, available at: https://www.refworld.org/docid/3ae6b3980.html
32
UN General Assembly, Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, 28 July 1951, United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 189,
p. 137, available at: https://www.refworld.org/docid/3be01b964.html
UNHCR POLAND, SEPTEMBER 2019
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