UNHCR, UN High Commissioner for Refugees and ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights, Report of the ASEAN Regional Workshop on Statelessness and the Rights of Women and Children, 19 November 2011, available at: http://www.refworld.org/docid/50f674c42.html More detailed information about many of the issues discussed at the AICHR/UNHCR workshop is set out in this paper: UNHCR, Regional Expert Roundtable on Good Practices for the Identification, Prevention and Reduction of Statelessness and the Protection of Stateless Persons in South East Asia, 2 March 2011, available at: http://www.refworld.org/docid/4d6e09932.html Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Recommendations The first fifteen full sessions of the UPR show a steady increase in the number of recommendations relating to th statelessness, going from one recommendation in the first session to 30 in the 15 . The most common themes are birth registration (109 recommendations), reform of nationality laws, including to ensure children acquire a nationality (95 recommendations), and accession to the statelessness conventions (70 recommendations). UNHCR, Compilation of recommendations relating to statelessness made during the first cycle (1st 12th sessions) of the Human Rights Council's Universal Periodic Review, 11 July 2013, available at: http://www.refworld.org/docid/51dfaf484.html UNHCR, Compilation of recommendations relating to statelessness made during the Second Cycle (13th - 16th sessions) of the Human Rights Council's Universal Periodic Review, 11 July 2013, available at: http://www.refworld.org/docid/51dfb0ee4.html Selected International Case Law Relating to Stateless Children Case of the Yean and Bosico Children v. The Dominican Republic, Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR), 8 September 2005, available at: http://www.refworld.org/docid/44e497d94.html Institute for Human Rights and Development in Africa (IHRDA) and Open Society Justice Initiative (on behalf of Children of Nubian Descent in Kenya) v. the Government of Kenya, Decision No 002/Com/002/2009, African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (ACERWC), 22 March 2011, available at: http://www.refworld.org/docid/4f5f04492.html Selected Documents on Birth Registration UNHCR, Birth Registration: A Topic Proposed for an Executive Committee Conclusion on International Protection, 9 February 2010, EC/61/SC/CRP.5 [briefly sets out the link between birth registration and nationality] available at: http://www.refworld.org/docid/4b97a3242.html A Passport to Protection: A Guide to Birth Registration Programming http://www.unicef.org/media/files/UNICEF_BRHandbook_Web_single_pages.pdf Every Child’s Birth Right - Inequities and trends in birth registration http://www.unicef.org/media/files/Embargoed_11_Dec_Birth_Registration_report_low_res.pdf Videos on Statelessness Zeinab and Manal, the testimony of two women who are stateless because they could not acquire the nationality of their mother due to discriminatory provisions of the nationality law: "It is an obstacle to everything: marriage, work... everything." http://unhcr.org/v-4f587d216