4. A LEGAL ANALYSIS OF STATELESSNESS IN THE NETHERLANDS 4.1 Statelessness under international law with reference to treaty obligations and implementation in The Netherlands 89. The Netherlands is a party to a number of treaties that deal with, or have a bearing on, nationality issues: the 1930 Hague Convention on Certain Questions Relating to the Conflict of Nationality Laws122 as well as its Protocol relating to statelessness,123 the 1965 Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Racial Discrimination,124 the 1966 International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights,125 the 1966 Covenant on Civil and Political Rights,126 the 1979 Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination against Women,127 and the 1989 Convention on the Rights of the Child.128 The Netherlands was party to the 1957 Convention on the Nationality of Married Women129 and the 1973 Berne Convention on the Reduction of the Number of Cases of Statelessness,130 but denounced these Conventions in 1991 and 2001 respectively because they have been superceded by subsequent developments in international law.131 It should also be noted that the right to a nationality has long since been regarded as a human right. Article 15 of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights provides that “everyone has the right to a nationality. No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his nationality, nor denied the right to change his nationality”. 40 122 Trb. 1967, 73. Entry into force in the Netherlands on 2 April 1937. 123 Trb. 1967, 74. 124  rb. 1966, 237. Entry into force in the Netherlands on 9 December 1972. Articles 1 and 5 refer to T nationality. 125 Trb. 1969, 100. Entry into force in the Netherlands on 11 December 1978. 126 Trb. 1978, 177. Entry into force in the Netherlands on 10 March 1979. 127 Trb. 1980, 146. Entry into force in the Netherlands on 22 August 1991. 128  rb. 1990, 170. Entry into force in the Netherlands on 8 March 1995. The Netherlands has signed T but not yet ratified the 2006 Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, which also contains provisions with a bearing on statelessness. 129  rb. 1965, 218. Entry into force in the Netherlands on 6 November 1966 and no longer in force as of T 16 January 1993. 130  rb. 1974, 32. Entry into force in the Netherlands on 19 May 1985 and no longer in force as of 13 T September 2001. 131  he 1957 Convention was denounced because it violated the 1979 Convention on the Elimination T of All Forms of Discrimination against Women. The 1973 Convention was denounced because it had become irrelevant once gender equality in Dutch nationality law was secured. (The Berne Convention obliged States to grant their nationality iure sanguinis a matre to children of a mother who was a national of the State involved if the children did not acquire the nationality of their father). See G.-R. de Groot, “A clarification of the fundamental rights implications of stateless and persons erased from the register of residents”, 3. Mapping statelessness