A/HRC/RES/13/2 on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities; the Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness; and the Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons, Noting also general comment No. 30 (2004) of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, Noting further the attention that the above-mentioned Committee pays to the issues of statelessness and arbitrary deprivation of nationality in its work, including when examining the reports of States parties on the implementation of their obligations under the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, Recalling that persons arbitrarily deprived of nationality are protected by international human rights and refugee law as well as instruments on statelessness, including, with respect to States parties, the Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and the Convention relating to the Status of Refugees and the Protocol thereto, Stressing that all human rights are universal, indivisible, interdependent and interrelated and that the international community must treat human rights globally in a fair and equal manner, on the same footing and with the same emphasis, Recalling General Assembly resolution 64/127 of 18 December 2009, in which, inter alia, the Assembly urged the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees to continue its work with regard to identifying stateless persons, preventing and reducing statelessness and protecting stateless persons, Noting the important work of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in seeking to address and prevent the problem of statelessness, as guided by, in particular, the conclusion of its Executive Committee on identification, prevention and reduction of statelessness and protection of stateless persons No. 106 (LVII) 2006, Mindful of the endorsement by the General Assembly, in its resolution 41/70 of 3 December 1986, of the call upon all States to promote human rights and fundamental freedoms and to refrain from denying those to individuals in their populations because of nationality, ethnicity, race, religion or language, Recalling General Assembly resolutions 55/153 of 12 December 2000, 59/34 of 2 December 2004 and 63/118 of 11 December 2008 on the work of the International Law Commission on the nationality of natural persons in relation to the succession of States, Recalling also that the General Assembly in its resolution 63/118 decided to include in the provisional agenda of its sixty-sixth session the item entitled “Nationality of natural persons in relation to the succession of States”, with the aim of examining the subject, including the question of the form that might be given to the relevant draft articles on nationality of natural persons in relation to the succession of States prepared by the International Law Commission, Recognizing that arbitrary deprivation of nationality disproportionately affects persons belonging to minorities, and recalling the work done by the independent expert on minority issues on the subject of the right to nationality, Expressing its deep concern at the arbitrary deprivation of persons or groups of persons of their nationality, especially on discriminatory grounds such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status, Recalling that arbitrarily depriving a person of his or her nationality may lead to statelessness and, in this regard, expressing concern at various forms of discrimination against stateless persons that may violate the obligations of States under international human rights law, 2