Statelessness Working Paper Series No. 2016/05 the EU’s Global Approach of Migration and Mobility. Mobility partnerships (MPs) are the principal framework for bilateral cooperation between the EU and non-EU partner countries. MPs are political agreements concluded between certain EU Member States and third countries covering bilateral and multilateral projects relating to mobility, migration and asylum issues. MPs are based on reciprocal commitments and seek to advance a comprehensive approach to migration management with third countries, with a primary focus on the countries in the EU Neighbourhood. Within the GAMM, MPs could provide and excellent channel for the promotion of the issue of statelessness. To give a regional example, after the signature of the EU-Jordan Mobility Partnership (MP) in October 2014, a technical assistance project (JEMPAS) was put in place with the overall aim to support the implementation of the MP with a specific focus on strengthening the capacity of the government to develop and implement the Jordanian national migration policy.72 Thus, this project had an immense potential to help the Jordanian government to duly reflect on the rights of children born in the migratory context in Jordan who are at high stake of statelessness. Migration Dialogues are also excellent tools to advance the case of statelessness on the international agenda on a bilateral basis with countries of concern by fostering governmental discussions on statelessness along with migration issues and enhance international migration cooperation. Certain migration dialogues may be excellent vehicles for engaging the MENAT countries in the fight against statelessness, especially the Dialogue on Mediterranean Transit-Migration (MTM Dialogue), the Rabat Process and the EUROMED Migration III, having their respective operative framework, agenda and thematic priorities. The MTM Dialogue provides a consultative platform engaging migration officials in countries of origin, transit and destination, including Europe and the MENAT countries as well. Its scope of activities has extended to several thematic areas of irregular and mixed migration, as well as migration and development. Therefore, there would be room to incorporate a focus on the rights of stateless refugees. In addition, the Rabat Process provides a further avenue for relevant discussion for more than 60 African and European countries, including the MENAT countries of concern, especially by reviewing the Dakar Strategy under implementation in a way to support the implementation of concrete statelessness-related actions at a later stage. EUROMED Migration III is yet another migration dialogue that seeks to foster cooperation on migratory issues between the European Neighbourhood Instrument (ENI) South partner countries and EU countries, as well as among themselves.73 Within the framework of formalized bilateral political dialogues, the Human Rights Dialogues mechanism was established by the EU, together with specific sub-committees and groups dealing with human rights issues, including those dealing with Jordan and Lebanon as well. This instrument provides an excellent platform for the EU to reach out to third countries putting the issue of stateless persons on the political agenda in countries of concern, such as in Jordan and Lebanon. The implementation of these human rights dialogues is also overseen by COHOM, as well as the co-ordination of the related EU position. The EU has also engaged in human rights dialogues with other regional organisations, inter alia the African Union, the UN’s Economic Commission for Africa, the League of Arab States, the Organisation of the Islamic Conference and the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN). The next advocacy platform suggested for consideration is the funding mechanism of the European Neighbourhood Instrument (ENI) supporting the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP). Its priority sectors seek to tackle areas, such as irregular migration, human smuggling and trafficking in human beings; areas of human rights violations stateless persons are particularly vulnerable to. Considering that one of the axes of cooperation with ENP-countries is explicitly the approximation of legislation and enhancing the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (whose fifth objective is to reach gender equality), reform talks about removing gender-based discrimination from nationality laws could be 72 See for further details: http://www.icmpd.org/our-work/capacity-building/multi-thematic-programmes/support-to-themobility-partnership-between-the-european-union-and-the-hashemite-kingdom-of-jordan-jempas/. 73 See more: http://www.icmpd.org/our-work/migration-dialogues/. 9