Recommendations 23. Based on the above information, we urge the Special Rapporteur to make the following recommendations to strengthen the protection, recognition and resourcing of HRDs working to promote the right to a nationality and the rights of stateless people: I. Recognise HRDs working to promote the right to a nationality and the rights of stateless people - particularly those with lived experience of statelessness - as a distinct group of defenders facing specific and compounded risks, and ensure their inclusion in national and international protection frameworks. II. End the use of deprivation or denial of nationality as a means to silence or punish HRDs, and ensure compliance with the international standards prohibiting arbitrary loss or deprivation of nationality. III. Address the chronic underfunding of statelessness work, recognising financial insecurity as a serious protection risk for HRDs in this field. Encourage UN agencies and donors to develop mitigation plans to sustain statelessness programming and civil society engagement, and to establish flexible, accessible funding channels for impacted-person-led groups. IV. Ensure that HRDs working on statelessness can safely participate in regional and international advocacy by facilitating access to travel documents and humanitarian visas, ensuring that relocation and protection programmes explicitly include stateless HRDs, and adopting flexible approaches that enable meaningful participation in UN and other multilateral forums, including virtual participation and interpretation. V. Adopt protection frameworks that recognise and respond to the intersectional risks faced by HRDs working on statelessness - including women, those belonging to ethnic/religious, LGBTQ+, displaced groups, and people with disabilities working on statelessness. Encourage the development of gender-sensitive, disability-inclusive, culturally responsive and trauma-informed protection responses, including access to psychosocial support, safe spaces and peer accompaniment mechanisms. VI. Strengthen the effectiveness of international accountability mechanisms by promoting simplified, accessible procedures for HRDs, including addressing language and bureaucratic barriers. This should be accompanied by local awareness-raising, stronger follow-up with States on implementation of communications and collaboration with civil society to ensure national-level impact and protection of HRDs engaging with these mechanisms. 6