nor are they allowed to work.34 This also affects refugees who are also stateless. UNHCR has reported that "stateless persons are unable to enjoy their most fundamental rights such as the right education, health care, and an adequate standard of living".35 As the law does not afford a specific legal status to refugees and asylum seekers, authorities usually treat them as irregular migrants and did not issued them work permits. Asylum seekers generally do not have access to government-provided basic services such as health care and education. Recommendations 35. Based on the above analysis, the co-submitting organisations urge reviewing States to make the following recommendations to Mongolia: I. Strengthen efforts to provide all children with proof of their legal identity through immediate birth registration, including Kazakh children and rural migrants to (peri-)urban settlements, those who migrate within the territory of the State party and those who were born at home or without midwife support. II. Take all necessary measures in line with obligations under the CRC to grant Mongolian citizenship to all children residing in the State party who would otherwise be stateless, particularly Kazakh children who have returned to Mongolia. III. Ensure that stateless people and their children, have access to government services including basic health, education and other social services during the registration process. IV. Resolve the issue of statelessness, through improved registration of persons who previously held Mongolian nationality and expedite procedures for (re-)acquisition of Mongolian nationality, within the regulated time-frame of up to 6-months. V. Ensure that the planned 2020 Mongolian National Population census results in comprehensive disaggregated data on statelessness in Mongolia, including on the difficulties encountered by stateless people, and ensure that statelessness is addressed in Mongolian’s human rights reports. VI. Accede to and fully implement the Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and the Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness. 34 US Department of State, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, 2010 Country Report on Human Rights issues Mongolia ( 8 April 2011) https://2009-2017.state.gov/documents/organization/160094.pdf. 35 Ibid, p10. 8