Amendment No. 1 | Doc. 13985 | 16 February 2016

The need to eradicate statelessness of children

Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights

Origin - 2016 - March Standing Committee

In the draft resolution, before paragraph 1, insert the following paragraph:

"The Parliamentary Assembly recalls its work on nationality matters, and in particular its Resolution 1989 (2014) on access to nationality and the effective implementation of the European Convention on Nationality and Recommendations 194 (1959) on nationality of children of stateless persons and 1081 (1988) on problems of nationality in mixed marriages. It also underlines that the right to a nationality is enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights."