Human Rights Council
Tenth Session
Resolution 10/13. Human rights and arbitrary deprivation of nationality
The Human Rights Council,
Guided by the purposes, principles and provisions of the Charter of the United Nations,
Guided also by article 15 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, according to
which everyone has the right to a nationality and no one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his
nationality,
Reaffirming its resolution 7/10 as well as all previous resolutions adopted by the
Commission on Human Rights on the issue of human rights and the arbitrary deprivation of
nationality,
Recognizing the right of States to establish laws governing the acquisition, renunciation or
loss of nationality in accordance with international law, and noting that the issue of statelessness
is already under consideration by the General Assembly within the broad issue of State
succession,
Noting the provisions of international human rights instruments and international
instruments on statelessness and nationality prohibiting arbitrary deprivation of nationality,
inter alia, article 5, paragraph (d) (iii) of the International Convention on the Elimination of All
Forms of Racial Discrimination; article 24, paragraph 3 of the International Covenant on Civil
and Political Rights; articles 7 and 8 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child; articles 1 to 3
of the Convention on the Nationality of Married Women; article 9 of the Convention on the
Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women; article 18 of the Convention on the
Rights of Persons with Disabilities; the Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness; and the
Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons,
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 63/148 of 18 December 2008, 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,