The Child Education Institute of Mongolia and Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion Joint Submission to the Human Rights Council at the 36th Session of the Universal Periodic Review Mongolia Introduction 1. The Child Education Institute of Mongolia (CEIM) and Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion (ISI) make this joint submission to the Universal Periodic Review (UPR), on the right to a nationality and human rights challenges pertaining to statelessness in Mongolia. 2. CEIM is a civil society organization founded in 2015 in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia with the vision to promote basic human rights through educational activism, social and policy research, advocacy and partnership throughout Mongolia and beyond. 3. ISI1 is an independent non-profit organisation committed to an integrated, human rights based response to the injustice of statelessness and exclusion through a combination of research, education, partnerships and advocacy. Established in August 2014, it is the first and only global centre committed to promoting the human rights of stateless persons and ending statelessness. The Institute has made over 50 country specific UPR submissions on the human rights of stateless persons, and also compiled summaries of the key human rights challenges related to statelessness in all countries under review under the 23rd to the 35th UPR Sessions. 4. This submission focuses on: I. II. III. National Law Framework on Nationality Status of Birth Registration Citizenship of Kazakh Ethnic group Mongolia's Universal Periodic Review under the First and Second Cycle 5. Mongolia was previously reviewed during the 9th session in 2010 and the 22nd session in 2015. During the first cycle, Mongolia received recommendations to accede to a number of treaties including the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families (ICRMW); International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance (CED); 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees and its 1967 Protocol (Refugee Convention); and 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless 1 For more information, see www.institutesi.org. 1