Annex I - The UK’s International Obligations 1. The UK has acceded to both the Convention Relating to the Status of Stateless Persons (1954 Convention) and the Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness (1961 Convention). However, the UK maintains several reservations to these treaties, and neither convention has been fully incorporated into domestic law. 2. The UK also has international obligations to protect the right to a nationality and the rights of stateless persons on the basis of international and regional treaties to which it is a party. These include: • • • • • • • the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) (see Article 24.3) the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) (see Articles 2.2 and 3) the Convention of the Rights of the Child (CRC) (see Articles 2, 3, 7 and 8) the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) (see Article 9) the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD) (see Article 5(d)(iii)) the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) (see Article 18) the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CAT). Furthermore, the right to a nationality is included in Article 15 of the Universal Declaration on Human Rights. 3. However, the UK is not party to several treaties relating to statelessness, namely the European Convention on Nationality, the European Convention on the Avoidance of Statelessness in Relation to State Succession, and the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of all Migrant Workers and their Families. 16