A/HRC/RES/26/14 11. Welcomes the report of the Secretary-General submitted in accordance with Human Rights Council resolution 20/51 and the conclusions contained therein; 12. 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; 13. Emphasizes that where States take any measure that would render individuals stateless by depriving them of nationality, they should endeavour to do so in a limited manner; 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. Encourages States to grant their nationality to persons who had habitual residence in their territory before it was affected by the succession of States, especially if those persons would otherwise become stateless; 19. Also 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; 20. 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, and calls on them to follow in this work the guidance note of the Secretary-General entitled “The United Nations and Statelessness” and the guidelines on statelessness issued by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees; 21. 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 deprivation of nationality from all relevant sources, and to take account of such information, together with any recommendations thereon, in their reports and activities conducted within their respective mandates; 22. Requests the Secretary-General, in consultation with States, United Nations agencies and other relevant stakeholders, to prepare a report on the impact that the arbitrary deprivation of nationality has on the enjoyment of the rights of children concerned, as well as on the existing laws and practices on accessibility for children to acquire nationality, inter alia, of the country in which they are born, if they otherwise would be stateless, and to present it to the Human Rights Council before its thirty-first session; 1 4 See A/HRC/25/28.