Acknowledgements This publication is jointly published by the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). Authors: This publication was prepared principally by UNHCR, and Mariana Olaizola Rosenblat conducted substantial research in support of this project. Melanie Khanna, Chief of the Statelessness Section, in the Division of International Protection (DIP), oversaw the development of the project, helping to write and edit it for publication. Others in the Statelessness Section including Lena Haap, Radha Govil, Anna de la Vargo Fito and Fernando Bissacot, contributed to the research and review, as did UNHCR’s regional statelessness officers. Radha Govil, Melanie Khanna and Shahrzad Tadjbakhsh, Deputy Director of DIP, served as editorial reviewers. Thanks also goes to the IPU Committee to Promote Respect for International Humanitarian Law for their support. All parts of this publication may be reproduced for personal and non-commercial use on condition that copyright and source indications are also copied and no modifications are made. Please inform the IPU on the usage of publication content. All nationality laws were understood to be current as of the time of the writing of this handbook. As nationality laws may be amended some references are likely to become out of date over time. Official translations were relied upon where those were publicly available. Where they were not, translations were done in-house; any errors are unintentional and should be reported to the IPU or the UNHCR. © Inter-Parliamentary Union 2018 Cover photo: © UNHCR/Midhat Poturovic Bosnia and Herzegovina. Support to durable solutions of the Revised Strategy for the Implementation of Annex VII of Dayton Peace Agreement A Roma woman and her minor child who was at risk of statelessness are showing birth and citizenship certificates, which they obtained with the help provided to them by Vasa Prava BiH, UNHCR’s partner organization providing free legal aid in Sarajevo. UNHCR’s free legal aid partner non-governmental organization is providing legal assistance to the Roma population, a minority of which is at risk of statelessness in Bosnia and Herzegovina, to be registered in birth/citizenship registries. EU-UNHCR co-sponsored IPA 2012 project of supporting socio-economic integration of minority returnees and internally displaced in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Design and layout: Ink Drop ISBN: 978-92-9142-731-4 Handbook on statelessness (EN)