VI. Advocacy and partnerships liament from 39 countries, including OSCE participating States, participated and adopted an outcome document featuring a 7 point Plan of Action. The conference also draw attention to the UNHCR/IPU publication Nationality and Statelessness: A Handbook for Parliamentarians130 which aims to raise awareness and build the capacity of parliamentarians to address statelessness.131 It provides practical information on contemporary statelessness issues, developments in international legal doctrine, good practice examples and possible solutions. It also suggests practical steps that can be taken by parliamentarians to address statelessness. Thus far, the Handbook is available in 23 languages, including all official UN languages, and it has served as a useful tool to broach the issue of statelessness at the national level in several countries. At its 46th Regular Session in June 2016, the General Assembly of the Organization of American States adopted a resolution promoting civil registration, accession to the Statelessness Conventions, compliance with international standards, establishment of statelessness determination procedures, elimination of gender discrimination from nationality laws, and the resolution of existing cases of statelessness. 2015 to 2024 was declared to be the Asian and Pacific Civil Registration and Vital Statistics (CRVS) Decade at the Ministerial Conference on CRVS in Asia and the Pacific, held in November 2014 in Bangkok. At that meeting, governments, including those from several OSCE participating States, adopted the Ministerial Declaration to “Get Every One in the Picture” in Asia and the Pacific, and made a commitment to focus their efforts to improve CRVS systems.132 Within the Council of Europe, both independent human rights bodies, such as its Commissioner for Human Rights, and political bodies, such as the Parliamentary Assembly and its Committee of Ministers, have all engaged in efforts to reduce statelessness. This takes place through country reports133, resolutions and recommendations134 and through engagement in related fields, such as the situation of Roma or other ethnic minorities135. In March 2016, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe adopted Resolution 2099 (2016) on the need to eradicate statelessness of children. The Resolution sets out a number of steps to be taken by Council of Europe Member States to eradicate childhood statelessness, including accession 86

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