Joint Submission to the Human Rights Council at the 42nd Session of the Universal Periodic Review SWITZERLAND Introduction 1. humanrights.ch, the Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion (ISI), and the European Network on Statelessness (ENS) make this joint submission to the Universal Periodic Review (UPR), on the right to a nationality and human rights challenges pertaining to statelessness in Switzerland. The co-submitters have developed the submission in close collaboration with Maureen Grossman, Jyothi Kanics and Barbara von Rütte. Additional input has been provided by Aleksejs Ivashuk. 2. This submission focuses on: I. II. III. IV. The Lack of a Formal Statelessness Determination Procedure The Right of Every Child to Acquire a Nationality Deprivation of citizenship Protection for stateless persons and people at risk of statelessness fleeing the war in Ukraine 3. humanrights.ch is a Swiss non-profit organisation established in 1999 with the main aim of gathering and providing information, raising public awareness, monitoring state action and counselling on human rights issues and the human rights situation in Switzerland. humanrights.ch has particular expertise in coordinating and publishing reports and opinions on the human rights situation in Switzerland and has contributed to a number of reports to UN and Council of Europe monitoring bodies.1 4. The Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion (ISI) is the first and only human rights NGO dedicated to working on statelessness at the global level. ISI’s mission is to promote inclusive societies by realising and protecting everyone’s right to a nationality. The Institute has made over 90 country specific UPR submissions on the human rights of stateless persons. ISI has also compiled summaries of the key human rights challenges 1 For more information, see: https://www.humanrights.ch/de/. 1