30 August 2021

News: 60th Anniversary of the 1961 Statelessness Convention

The 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness turned 60 today. For more information about this international treaty and the role it has played in addressing statelessness around the world, please visit the following resources:
  • Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness, New York, 30 August 1961 (UN Audiovisual Library of International Law, 2011) [access]
  • Factsheet: The 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness (UNHCR, Aug. 2021) [access the text in EN, FR, SPA & AR]
  • Preventing and Reducing Statelessness: The 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness (UNHCR, 2014) [access the text in multiple languages]
UNHCR has also issued the following legal guidance relating to the 1961 convention:
  • Guidelines on Statelessness No. 4: Ensuring Every Child's Right to Acquire a Nationality through Articles 1-4 of the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness (UNHCR, 2012) [text]
  • Guidelines on Statelessness No. 5: Loss and Deprivation of Nationality under Articles 5-9 of the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness (UNHCR, 2020) [text]

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