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, as reaffirmed
in the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action adopted by the World
Conference on Human Rights in June 1993, the 2005 World Summit Outcome and
General Assembly resolution 60/251 of 15 March 2006, by which the Assembly
established the Human Rights Council,
Recalling General Assembly resolution 61/137 of 25 January 2007, 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, including the adoption by its Executive Committee of the conclusion 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 these to individuals in their
populations because of nationality, ethnicity, race, religion or language,
Recalling General Assembly resolutions 55/153 of 12 December 2000 and
59/34 of 2 December 2004 on the nationality of natural persons in relation to the
succession of States,
Recalling also the resolutions of the Sub-Commission on the Promotion and
Protection of Human Rights on the rights of non-citizens, in particular of paragraph 7
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