various international treaties limit the cases in which loss of nationality may occur. in most cases this limits the government's power to deprive the individual of citizenship, but this also may limit the individual's ability to voluntarily make themselves stateless. article 7 of the convention on the reduction of statelessness provides that "[l]aws for the renunciation of a nationality shall be conditional upon a person's acquisition or possession of another nationality". however, this is not considered a peremptory norm which binds non-signatories to the convention.