Joint Submission to the Human Rights Council at the 42nd Session of the Universal Periodic Review. PAKISTAN Introduction 1. Imkaan Welfare Organisation,1 Nationality For All (NFA)2 and the Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion (ISI)3 make this joint submission to the Universal Periodic Review (UPR), on the right to a nationality and human rights challenges pertaining to statelessness in Pakistan. 2. This submission focuses on: 2.1. Discrimination and exclusion of stateless people in accessing citizenship documentation and registration. 2.2. Denial of Child rights, including child’s right to a nationality and stateless children's access to other rights such as, education and participation. 2.3. The COVID-19 impact on stateless communities. 2.4. Gender discrimination in Pakistan’s nationality law. 1 Imkaan Welfare Organization works in marginalised communities in Karachi – Pakistan with different interventions in Maternal and child health, mental health, recreation and learning for children, solid waste and legal aid. Imkaans focus is on statelessness and stateless communities, awareness, advocacy on their rights and facilitation in the process of acquisition of citizenship. 2 Nationality For All (NFA) is a not-for-profit organization that aims to promote the right to nationality and address statelessness through research, advocacy, and capacity building in the Asia Pacific region. NFA was formed from the work undertaken by the Statelessness Network Asia Pacific (SNAP) over four years to build a regional civil society movement on addressing statelessness in the region. 3 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 90 country specific UPR submissions on the human rights of stateless persons. ISI has also compiled summaries of the key human rights challenges related to statelessness in all countries under review under the 23rd to the 41st UPR Sessions. For more information, see https://www.institutesi.org/. 1