36 Engaging actors at the regional and international level to promote solutions to childhood statelessness • Promote synergy between different regional and international actors to enhance and maintain momentum. For example, utilise the European Network on Ombudspersons for Children to create a common position and generate momentum for EUlevel engagement on the issue. • Advocate towards Ministries of Foreign Affairs and permanent representations in Geneva/Brussels to identify ways in which childhood statelessness can be raised higher on the international/regional agenda. • Encourage and support the development of further tools and doctrinal interpretation by international and regional bodies that can provide authoritative guidance – including by the Committee on the Rights of the Child and by relevant Council of Europe and EU institutions. • Through a coordinated pan-European strategy, enhance the use of strategic litigation to address childhood statelessness issues emerging through research and which encounter political resistance to reform. Utilise existing networks to identify and pursue suitable cases. • Explore and develop avenues for direct interaction between persons affected by childhood statelessness (children, parents) and relevant regional and international bodies in order to promote a better understanding of the issue, its urgency and the appetite for reform. • Consolidate and build on efforts to engage regional and international child rights organisations with campaigning on the issue of childhood statelessness. At the EU level, seek to mainstream this issue in the upcoming renewal of the EU child rights agenda, the Forum on the Rights of the Child, the Framework for National Roma integration Strategies and the Commission’s Investing in Children Recommendations. A longer version of this Conference Action Statement can be found on the website of ENS: www.statelessness.eu ANNEX 4 FURTHER READING ENS Working Paper Series on Ending Childhood Statelessness The following papers form a dedicated ENS Working Paper Series, compiling research undertaken in the context of the campaign “None of Europe’s children should be stateless”. The research was conducted by ENS members between January and June 2015. Each of the country studies offers: a detailed legal analysis, including of relevant lower-level circulars/policy guidelines; the identification and analysis of relevant jurisprudence; and data from interviews with implementing authorities, lawyers and other service providers about their knowledge and experience of relevant safeguards, as well as with relevant organisations with regard to advocacy around this issue. These papers also include a number of case studies to highlight particular issues identified. They were conducted according to a common methodology and research template designed by ENS’s expert partner, the Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion, and extensive comments and input were provided on all papers by Dr Laura van Waas, Co-Director of the Institute. All the working papers can be accessed on the ENS website www.statelessness.eu • ENS, Ending Childhood Statelessness: A Study on Romania, Working Paper 01/15, 2015. • ENS, Ending Childhood Statelessness: A Study on Macedonia, Working Paper 02/15, 2015. • ENS, Ending Childhood Statelessness: A Study on Poland, Working Paper 03/15, 2015. • ENS, Ending Childhood Statelessness: A Study on Estonia, Working Paper 04/15, 2015. • ENS, Ending Childhood Statelessness: A Study on Italy, Working Paper 05/15, 2015. • ENS, Ending Childhood Statelessness: A Study on Albania, Working Paper 06/15, 2015. • ENS, Ending Childhood Statelessness: A Study on Latvia, Working Paper 07/15, 2015. • ENS, Ending Childhood Statelessness: A Study on Slovenia, Working Paper 08/15, 2015. • ENS, Ending Childhood Statelessness: A comparative study of safeguards to ensure the right to a nationality for children born in Europe, Working Paper 09/15, 2015. Other selected resources relating to childhood statelessness • ENS Blogs available at: www.statelessness.eu/blog • ENS, Preventing childhood statelessness in Europe: Issues, gaps and good practices, 2014. • Plan International, Count Every Child. The right to birth registration, 2009. • Report of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Birth registration and the right of everyone to recognition everywhere as a person before the law, A/HRC/27/22, 17 June 2014. • UNICEF, A Passport to Protection: A guide to birth registration programming, 2013. • UNICEF, Every Child’s Birth Right. Inequalities and trends in birth registration, 2013. • UNHCR, Global Action Plan to End Statelessness, 4 November 2014 [Actions 2, 3 and 7]. • European Network of National Human Rights Institutions, Position Paper with Recommendations on the Eradication of Statelessness in Europe, September 2014. • UNHCR, Conclusion on Civil Registration, No. 111 (LXIV2013), 17 October 2013. • UNHCR, Guidelines on Statelessness No. 4: Ensuring every child’s right to acquire a nationality through articles 1-4 of the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness, 21 December 2012. • UNHCR and Plan International, Under the Radar and Under Protected: The urgent need to address stateless children’s rights, June 2012. Other selected resources relating to statelessness • ENS, Still Stateless, Still Suffering. Why Europe must act now to protect stateless persons, 2014. • ENS, Good Practice Guide on Statelessness Determination and the Protection Status of Stateless Persons, 2013. • UNHCR and Inter-Parliamentary Union, Nationality and Statelessness: Handbook for Parliamentarians No. 22, July 2014. • UNHCR, Handbook on protection of stateless persons, 30 June 2014. • UN Secretary-General, Guidance Note of the SecretaryGeneral: The United Nations and Statelessness, June 2011.