5. The Institute for Human Rights and Development in Africa (IHRDA) is an awardwinning pan-African non-profit organization that promotes the effective use of the African Human Rights System to advance and protect human rights and development across the continent. Through legal advocacy, capacity building and information sharing, the organization works to strengthen the efficacy of African regional and subregional human rights mechanisms and to end impunity for human rights violations in Africa. 6. The Eastern Africa Nationality Network (EANN) is a coalition of civil society organizations, stateless-led groups, stateless activists, academics and individuals working to eradicate statelessness in the Eastern Africa region. 7. The Pan African Nationality Network (PANN) is a continent-wide, statelessness-led network that brings together organizations, networks, and activists working to advance the right to nationality, legal identity, and equal citizenship across Africa. PANN exists to confront and dismantle the legal, political, and administrative systems that continue to exclude millions of people from belonging, particularly those from marginalised and minority communities. Through collective advocacy and pan-African solidarity, PANN seeks to ensure that nationality is recognised and protected as a fundamental human right. 8. The Global Movement Against Statelessness (GMAS), a community of stateless people, activists, and civil society allies dedicated to the eradication of statelessness and the achievement of equal nationality rights for all, which centres and is led by people directly impacted by statelessness, nationality deprivation, and discriminatory nationality laws. 9. The Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion (ISI) is the first and only human rights NGO dedicated to working on statelessness at the global level. ISI’s mission is to promote inclusive societies by realising and protecting everyone’s right to a nationality. The Institute has made over 130 country specific UPR submissions on the human rights of stateless persons. 10. This submission focuses on: I. II. III. IV. V. Deprivation of nationality and non-implementation of Animu’s case; Secession, displacement and statelessness; The right to a nationality in South Sudan; Childhood statelessness and lack of children’s safeguards; Identification and protection of stateless people. Previous UPR of South Sudan under the First, Second and Third Cycle 11. South Sudan was reviewed during the Second and Third sessions of the UPR, 2016 and 2022 respectively. 12. South Sudan did not undergo review during the first cycle of the Universal Periodic Review, having gained independence in July 2011. 2