Supporting reduction of statelessness and providing safe environment in Georgia

The following activities were carried out in support of reduction of statelessness in Georgia:

• The advisability of accession to the UN 1954 Convention relating to the status of stateless persons (2011) and the UN 1961 Convention on reduction of statelessness (2014) was assessed; 
• The Organic Law of Georgia “On Georgian Citizenship” was elaboorated to ensure harmonization of the Georgian legislation with the aforementioned UN Conventions where the principles of both UN 1961 Convention and European Conventions of 1997 were incorporated, the procedure for establishing the status of a stateless person was developed and amendments were introduced to 11 legislative acts;    
• National action plan for 2018-2019 was prepared with the working group on the issues of statelessness within UNHCR 2014 global campaign to end statelessness.   

Duration: 2012–2018  

Donor/partner: United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)