38.2 (7) TEMPROSA.DOCX38.2 (7) TEMPROSA.DOCX (DO NOT DELETE) 302 BERKELEY JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW 1/16/2021 12:59 PM [Vol. 38:2 organizations. 403 More importantly, a supervisory mechanism such as a treaty body could pin down factors that States manipulate through policy interventions. 404 Crucially, a treaty body for the 1954 Statelessness Convention could hear subaltern voices on statelessness concerns. The treaty body could serve a bridging function between an individual and States in the determination process, providing a forum where stateless persons—often on the fringes of society—could express concerns and raise issues relating to determinations and the exercise of the right to nationality. The treaty body for the 1954 Statelessness Convention could also authorize non-governmental organizations to provide routine information and incoming shadow reports for consideration. 405 Early scholarship on statelessness underscored the importance of institutions to statelessness issues, but those scholars remain largely unheeded. Returning to these and similar prescriptions, a treaty body could be established and organized for statelessness. For example, Myres S. McDougal, Harold D. Lasswell, and Lung-chu Chen all advocated for "some centralization, or organized internationalization of the protection function on the global level," 406 specifically advocating for a more organized institution to be positioned within the UN framework.407 Although the treaty body would operate independently, the UN General Assembly should provide the treaty body with adequate resources, manpower, and enforcement powers. The UN Secretary-General has also expressed the need for international cooperation and for treaty bodies to ensure the full implementation of the 1954 Statelessness Convention. 408 It is high time to follow through on such prescriptions. A dedicated treaty body that works with other treaty bodies is desirable. Since the 1980s, while different treaty bodies have made pronouncements on the condition of statelessness, 409 they have not really considered the concerns that are 403. Id. 404. Philip Alston, Between 'Them' and 'Us": Putting Treaty Body Reform into Perspective, in THE FUTURE OF UN HUMAN RIGHTS TREATY MONITORING 501, 523 (Philip Alston & James Crawford eds., 2000). 405. See Felice D. Gaer, Implementing International Human Rights Norms: UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies and NGOs, 2(3) J. HUM. RTS. 339, 350 (2003). 406. McDougal et al., supra note 68, at 996–97. 407. Id. 408. See UNITED NATIONS, Guidance Note, supra note 88, at 4. 409. See UNHRC, General Comment No. 27: Freedom of Movement, U.N. Doc. CCPR/C/21/Rev.1/Add.9 (1999), p. 5, para. 20; UNHRC, General Comment No. 15: The Position of Aliens Under the Covenant, U.N. Doc. HRI/GEN/1/Rev.1, at 18 (1986), p. 1, para. 1; United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women, General Recommendation No. 21: Equality in Marriage and Family Relations (1994), Comment No. 6, https://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/cedaw/recommendations/recomm.htm#recom21; United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, General Recommendation No. 30: Discrimination Against Non-Citizens, U.N. Doc. HRI/GEN/1/Rev.7/Add.1 (2004), para. 16; United Nations Committee on the Rights