Back to Contents (Source: Najdeh Association, Development Action Without Borders (Naba’a), Palestinian Human Rights Organization (PHRO) et al, “UPR 2020: Palestinian Refugee Rights in Lebanon”, July 2020, pp. 5-6) 16.2. Do stateless Palestinians experience any forms of reprisals as a result of gathering/protesting/gaining a public profile for speaking on a political issue? COI for this question was not found, but information gaps related to statelessness should not be regarded as the lack of a protection issue. As noted in a COI research guide produced by ARC Foundation and Asylos, ‘plenty of things happen but do not make it into the world of information that is accessible to you’.53 As stateless people do not have legal status, they lack visibility in societies, because they are often excluded from formal registration and documentation processes and from access to institutions and public services. This means their lives are not counted and recorded in the same ways, or to the same extent, as citizens of a country. Furthermore, the marginalisation that stateless groups often experience within societies may mean that there is a lack of information about them, or certain aspects of their experience. 53 ARC Foundation & Asylos, Country of Origin Information (COI): Evidencing asylum claims in the UK, 2020 16. Political participation and protests 144