ensuring that national laws and policies respect international human rights
related to nationality (Office of the High Commissioner for Human
Rights, including human rights treaty bodies and special procedures);
child protection, including the improved respect for the right of every
child to be registered at birth and to acquire a nationality (United Nations
Children's Fund);
gender equality to ensure that women enjoy equal rights as men with
respect to nationality laws and policies (UN Women);
collection and analysis of population data to improve identification of
stateless persons and populations (United Nations Population Fund,
United Nations regional economic commissions);
promotion of enhanced public information and awareness campaigns to
address statelessness (Department of Public Information); and
assistance to support undocumented migrants and their children to obtain
documentation, including supporting emergency consular assistance, and
promotion of good governance with respect to migration (International
Organization for Migration).
At the Headquarters level, cooperation between UN entities can be coordinated
in an inter-agency framework, led by UNHCR, with the support of the Executive
Office of the Secretary-General.
At the country level, the UN Country Teams provide the appropriate framework
for coordination between UN entities dealing with statelessness with a lead
responsibility exercised by UNHCR under its mandate. Cooperation and
coordination under the Common Country Assessment (CCA), the UN
Development Assistance Framework (UNDAF) and Delivering as One
initiatives as well as host government-led national development strategy
frameworks (e.g. Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSP’s), Post-Conflict
Needs Assessments (PCNAs), etc.) are of relevance, particularly because
addressing statelessness is frequently linked to development programmes.
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