SOLVING STATELESSNESS position of States and may therefore be taken as an indication of their understanding of the content of international norms in a given area. This section looks at both the level of attention to statelessness issues in recent years and the substantive content of that attention. There has been a general trend towards increased attention to statelessness and related issues in the work of the Human Rights Council. In 2012 there were seven resolutions which specifically mentioned statelessness or the right to a nationality,10 perhaps as a result of the commemorations of the 50th anniversary of the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness (1961 Statelessness Convention) the previous year. While this level of attention has not been maintained, a number of thematic resolutions have begun to routinely refer to statelessness or the right to a nationality, including the those on discrimination against women (which include nationality laws in the list of discriminatory provisions that should be amended or repealed)11 and on birth registration (where the increased vulnerability to statelessness of persons without birth registration and the importance of non-discrimination, including on the basis of 10 11 Human Rights Council (HRC), Resolution 19/9: Birth registration and the right of everyone to recognition everywhere as a person before the law, adopted without a vote 22 March 2012, A/HRC/RES/19/9; HRC, Resolution 19/21: Situation of human rights in Myanmar, adopted without a vote 23 March 2012, A/HRC/RES/19/21; HRC, Resolution 19/37: Rights of the Child, adopted without a vote 23 March 2012, A/HRC/RES/19/37; HRC, Resolution 20/1: Trafficking in persons, especially women and children: access to effective remedies for trafficked persons and their right to an effective remedy for human rights violations, adopted without a vote 5 July 2012, A/HRC/RES/20/1; HRC, Resolution 20/4: The right to a nationality: women and children, adopted without a vote 5 July 2012, A/HRC/RES/20/4; HRC, Resolution 20/5: Human rights and arbitrary deprivation of nationality, adopted without a vote 5 July 2012, A/HRC/RES/20/5; HRC, Resolution 21/33: From rhetoric to reality: a global call for concrete action against racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance, adopted by a vote (37 in favour, 1 against, 9 abstentions) 28 September 2012, A/HRC/RES/21/33. HRC, Resolution 23/7: Elimination of discrimination against women, adopted without a vote 13 June 2013, A/HRC/RES/23/7, para. 6; HRC, Resolution 26/5: Elimination of discrimination against women, adopted without a vote 26 June 2014, A/HRC/RES/26/5, para. 5; HRC, Resolution 29/4: Elimination of discrimination against women, adopted without a vote 2 July 2015, A/HRC/ RES/29/4, para. 10; but omitted from HRC, Resolution 20/6: Elimination of discrimination against women, adopted without a vote 5 July 2012, A/HRC/ RES/20/6. 17