(EASO) and the European Border Agency (Frontex) highlighted the importance of the issue in the context of their work. Underpinning and galvanising all these developments is UNHCR’s #IBelong campaign,xxiii which seeks to eradicate statelessness globally within a decade. Notwithstanding this welcome progress, ENS has identified five key areas of action where the European Union, Council of Europe and European States can focus attention and resources in order to affect concrete reforms and support collective efforts to address statelessness: 1) Ending childhood statelessness by encouraging European states yet to accede to the 1961 Statelessness Convention to do so; encouraging necessary nationality law reform in states with no or partial safeguards for otherwise stateless children born on their territory; promoting the removal of barriers to universal access to birth registration; and improving the identification of statelessness among migrant and refugee children to ensure implementation in practice. The European Parliament’s Intergroup on Children’s Rights should continue its key role in working with the Commission and the Council to ensure that childhood statelessness is addressed as part of the wider EU Child Rights agenda. The Council of Europe should ensure robust implementation of the action to ensure every child’s right to a nationality under its Action Plan on Refugee and Migrant Children, and as part of its wider child rights agenda. 2) Improving the identification and protection of stateless persons by encouraging all European states yet to do so to accede to the 1954 Statelessness Convention, including in particular EU MS Cyprus, Estonia, Malta and Poland in accordance with the EU’s 2012 pledge; supporting and encouraging all European states to introduce dedicated statelessness determination procedures to properly implement their obligations towards stateless people, including protection from arbitrary and lengthy detention; improving reporting and monitoring by national and regional authorities, including by obliging states to collect and publish reliable disaggregated data on stateless persons born and living on their territories. 3) Addressing statelessness in Europe’s refugee response by pushing for the improved identification of statelessness in the context of international protection procedures, improving the quality of and access to country of origin information and other resources to inform refugee response actors about populations affected by statelessness and nationality problems, and support affected individuals to access their rights. 4) Recognising that statelessness is (still) a minority issue and a gendered issue by raising awareness about and strengthening attention of national and regional institutions on the intersections between statelessness, minorities and women’s equality, as well as other aspects of people’s identities, such as disability and LGBTQ rights, age and ethnicity; addressing statelessness through the EU Framework for National Roma Integration Strategies, the Roma 2020 Integration Initiative, and EU enlargement and accession negotiations; and clarifying in light of international law, the legal status of ‘non-citizens’, living in EU MS, who formerly held Soviet Union citizenship. 5) Developing a dedicated regional strategy to galvanise action by encouraging regional institutions and European states to follow the example of other regions (for example, West Africa’s Abidjan Declaration or the Americas Brazil Declaration) in taking a holistic and integrated regional approach to galvanising action towards comprehensively addressing statelessness. For further information: Email us at info@statelessness.eu, visit us at www.statelessness.eu or follow us at www.twitter.com/ENStatelessness