Good practices in nationality laws for the prevention of childhood statelessness to the gender of their parents or because they were born through surrogacy or assisted reproduction.57 In addition to enacting laws to prevent childhood statelessness, it is also vital that States take measures to identify stateless people, raise their awareness of nationality acquisition, and ensure that nationality laws are implemented effectively. This requires effective procedures, robust training of officials, outreach to affected people, accessible expert legal assistance and continual monitoring of access to procedures, decision-making and other practices. Good practice indicators for preventing childhood statelessness58 Party to 1954 and 1961 Conventions without significant reservation Public commitments to address childhood statelessness, e.g., pledges, strategies, action plans Mapping exercises and reviews of situations of stateless people Robust data collection on stateless populations: disaggregated, effective and transparent methodologies, especially to reach populations at heightened risk of statelessness, published regularly Awareness raising and education for affected people (and family members) and for all officials who may be in a position to identify statelessness; in particular, government informs parents about children’s nationality rights, especially if a child’s nationality is unclear Mobile teams, cooperation and community outreach where needed to overcome barriers, especially to reach marginalized people Regular, effective consultation with people who have lived experience of statelessness Accessible and robust nationality and statelessness determination procedure with child-friendly features, appropriate burden and standard of proof, and adequate procedural safeguards 57 58 28 See Good practices paper – Action 3: Removing gender discrimination from nationality laws, UNHCR, 6 March 2015; Background Note on gender equality, nationality laws and statelessness, UNHCR, 8 March 2018; UNHCR and IPU, Good practices in nationality laws for the prevention and reduction of statelessness. See Global Action Plan to End Statelessness 2.0, UNHCR, 2 October 2014.

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