INTERNATIONAL AND REGIONAL LAW CHECKLIST DOCUMENTS TO READ REGARDLESS OF WHERE YOUR PROJECT IS, AS THESE SET OUT KEY PRINCIPLES OF INTERNATIONAL LAW AND CAN BE USEFUL IN UNDERSTANDING INTERNATIONAL NORMS AND ANALYZING GAPS IN NATIONAL LAWS: 4 RIGHT TO A NATIONALITY • 1 948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 15 • 1 954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons, Article 1 • 1 961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness, Articles 1—4 • 1 965 Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Racial Discrimination, Article 5 • 1 966 International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, Article 24 •9  79 Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women, Article 9 • 1 989 Convention on the Rights of the Child, Articles 7 and 8 • 1 990 Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families, Article 29 RELATED RESOURCE If the country where you would operate has ratified any of these instruments, that is one indication that a paralegal program can succeed. You can determine this at the following websites: • Status of ratification of 18 international human rights treaties, Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) • Minority rights legal framework and resources, OHCHR • UN Conventions on Statelessness, UNHCR (links to lists of states party to each convention) •2  006 Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, Article 18 DOCUMENTS THAT MAY NOT BE APPLICABLE IN YOUR COUNTRY, BUT MAY NEVERTHELESS CONTAIN USEFUL PRINCIPLES AND IDEAS TO ADVOCATE FOR: 4 AFRICA • 1 990 African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child, Article 6 •2  003 Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa, Article 6 •D  raft Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Right to Nationality in Africa 4 EUROPE • 1997 European Convention on Nationality • 2006 Council of Europe Convention on the Avoidance of Statelessness in relation to State Succession 4 AMERICAS • 1969 American Convention on Human Rights, Article 20 A C O M M U N I T Y- B A S E D P R A C T I T I O N E R ’ S G U I D E : D O C U M E N T I N G C I T I Z E N S H I P A N D OT H E R F O R M S O F L E G A L I D E N T I T Y | 27