2020 Statelessness & Citizenship Review 2(2) accounts and avoiding detention’. 154 After welcoming the measures taken by Iraq to reinstate the citizenship of Faili Kurds, who were stripped of their Iraqi citizenship in the 1980s, the Committee recommended that the state party accelerate the process of reinstating Faili Kurds’ citizenship by facilitating their access to citizenship, including by removal of all administrative obstacles throughout the process. 155 Lack of birth registration in particular is, as the Committee acknowledged, ‘a contributing factor to statelessness’. 156 In the Concluding Observations of Lebanon, the Committee recommended that the state party ensures that birth registration is accessible to all children born in its jurisdiction, ‘including by removing financial, procedural and regulatory obstacles’. 157 Similarly, it was ‘concerned at the requirement in the State Party for parents to present residence registration papers before the issuance of a birth certificate for their child’, which leads to difficulties for already disadvantaged groups. 158 On Suriname, the Committee recommended ‘that the State Party remove administrative barriers and discriminatory practices … to prevent statelessness and address discriminatory practices … particularly in the context of birth registration’. 159 Refugees and Displaced Persons Facilitated naturalisation has been identified as a possible durable solution of statelessness in the refugee-context, where the person cannot make use of the nationality of their home country. 160 The Committee has published a General Recommendation specifically on refugees and displaced persons, which was primarily focused on non-refoulement and did not go in-depth on how the various rights under art 5 should be interpreted. 161 In its Concluding Observations, the Committee has raised its concern over the large amount of long-term stateless refugees on the territory of Tajikistan and Rwanda and recommended to, at the very least, make refugees and asylum seekers aware of the law on nationality. 162 The Committee has also recommended to ‘develop a statelessness determination 154 Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, Concluding Observations on the 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 Combined Tenth to Seventeenth Periodic Reports of Sri Lanka, UN Doc CERD/C/LKA/CO/10-17 (6 October 2016) [20]. Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, Concluding Observations on the Combined Twenty-Second to Twenty-Fifth Periodic Reports of Iraq, UN Doc CERD/C/IRQ/CO/22-25 [33], [36]. Concluding Observations: Thailand, UN Doc CERD/C/THA/CO/1-3 (n 113) [14]. Concluding Observations: Lebanon, UN Doc CERD/C/LBN/CO/18-22 (n 113) [23]. Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, Concluding Observations on the Combined Seventh to Ninth Periodic Reports of Azerbaijan, UN Doc CERD/C/AZE/CO/7-9 (10 June 2016) [31]–[32]. Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, Concluding Observations on the Thirteenth to Fifteenth Periodic Reports of Suriname, UN Doc CERD/C/SUR/CO/13-15 (28 August 2015) 20. Tamás Molnár, ‘A Fresh Examination of Facilitated Naturalisation as a Solution for Stateless Persons’ in Laura van Waas and Melanie J. Khanna (eds), Solving Statelessness (Wolf Legal Publishers, 2016) 248, 248–252. Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, General Recommendation No 22: Article 5 of the Convention on Refugees and Displaced Persons, UN Doc A/51/18 (24 August 1996) (‘GR 22’) [2]. Concluding Observations: Tajikistan, UN Doc CERD/C/TJK/CO/6-8 (n 99) [14]; Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, Concluding Observations on the Eighteenth to Twentieth Periodic Reports of Rwanda, UN Doc CERD/C/RWA/CO/18-20 (10 June 2016) [20]–[21]. 244