A/HRC/RES/32/5 10. Also reaffirms that the primary purpose of protecting the right of every child to acquire a nationality is to prevent a child from being afforded less protection because he or she is stateless; 11. nationality; Reiterates that the right to identity is intimately linked to the right of 12. Urges States to register every child’s birth, regardless of the child’s or the child’s parents’ nationality, statelessness or legal status, and to ensure that proof of identity is available to all children; 13. Calls upon States to observe minimum procedural standards in order to ensure that decisions concerning the acquisition, deprivation or change of nationality do not contain any element of arbitrariness and are subject to review, in conformity with their international human rights obligations; 14. Urges States in regulating loss and deprivation of nationality to ensure incorporation in their domestic law of safeguards to prevent statelessness; 15. Calls upon States to ensure that such safeguards are implemented and access of persons arbitrarily deprived of their nationality to effective remedies, including, but not limited to, restoration of nationality, is provided; 16. Also calls upon States to consider whether loss or deprivation of nationality is proportionate to the interest to be protected by the loss or deprivation, including in the light of the severe impact of statelessness, and to consider alternative measures that could be adopted; 17. Urges States to refrain from automatically extending the loss or deprivation of nationality to a person’s dependents; 18. Welcomes the report of the Secretary-General submitted to the Human Rights Council in accordance with its resolution 26/14,2 and the conclusions and recommendations contained therein; 19. Stresses that the arbitrary deprivation of nationality places children in a situation of increased vulnerability to human rights violations; 20. Urges States to ensure that children deprived of nationality enjoy fully their human rights, including the rights to an identity, education, health, an adequate standard of living, family life and freedom of movement; 21. Also urges States to ensure that children deprived of nationality are protected at all times against all human rights violations, including exploitation, trafficking, torture or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment and the arbitrary deprivation of liberty; 22. Encourages States to consider acceding to the Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and the Convention on the Reduction on Statelessness if they have not already done so; 23. Welcomes the ongoing efforts made in the field of reduction of statelessness and combating arbitrary deprivation of nationality by different United Nations bodies and entities and human rights treaty bodies; 24. Urges relevant United Nations human rights mechanisms and appropriate treaty bodies, and encourages the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, to continue to collect information on the issue of human rights and arbitrary 2 4 A/HRC/31/29.