Recommendations 31. Based on the above analysis, the co-submitting organisations urge reviewing States to make the following recommendations to Viet Nam: 31.1. Fully promote, respect, protect and fulfil its obligations towards stateless persons under international human rights law. 31.2. Collaborate with civil society actors to ensure that reforms aimed at addressing statelessness are effectively implemented. 31.3. Publish information on the size and profiles of the stateless populations in Viet Nam and the barriers these populations face in acquiring or confirming citizenship in Viet Nam. 31.4. Guarantee access to fundamental human rights without discrimination, particularly with respect to ethnic and religious minorities such as the H’Mong and Montagnard communities. 31.5. Develop and implement civil documentation and registration campaigns that support people who are stateless or at risk of statelessness to acquire and confirm citizenship and obtain civil documentation. Such activities should focus on supporting populations residing in border areas and in remote and hard to reach locations. 31.6. Reform the residential registration system, so that access to fundamental human rights is not restricted by one’s status within the residential registration system. 31.7. Implement the recommendations provided in the 2018 Trafficking in Persons report in order to eliminate human trafficking in Viet Nam. 31.8. Ensure universal birth registration in Viet Nam, as a tool for protecting the right to a nationality and preventing statelessness, in compliance with Viet Nam’s obligations under article 7 of the CRC (to register all births immediately) and the Sustainable Development Goals, which aim under goal 16.9: ‘by 2030 provide legal identity for all including birth registration’. 31.9. Ensure all children in Viet Nam have access to education, irrespective of their documentation status. 31.10. Ratify and fully implement the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons, the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness and the 1951 Convention relating to the status of Refugees and its 1967 Protocol. 11