to keep the nationality granted to them when found. A child born or found in the territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina, for example, acquires that nationality if “both parents are unknown or of unknown citizenship or are stateless, or if the child is stateless”.25 Key sources to consult ²² Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness. ²² Convention on the Rights of the Child. ²² UNHCR, Good practices paper – Action 1: Resolving existing major situations of statelessness, 23 February 2015, available at: www.refworld.org/docid/54e75a244.html. ²² UNHCR, Good practices paper – Action 2: Ensuring that no child is born stateless, 20 March 2017, available at: www.refworld.org/ docid/58cfab014.html. ²² UNHCR, Guidelines on statelessness No. 4: Ensuring every child’s right to acquire a nationality through Articles 1 – 4 of the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness, 21 December 2012, HCR/GS/12/04, available at: www.refworld.org/ docid/50d460c72.html. 25 Law on citizenship of Bosnia and Herzegovina, consolidated Official Gazette nos. 4/97, 13/99, 41/02, 6/03, 14/03, 82/05, 43/09, 76/09, 87/131, Art. 7 (unofficial translation). 14

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