Joint Conclusions 2nd Regional Conference on the Right to Legal Identity and Prevention of Statelessness “Leaving No One Behind at Birth” 5-6 September 2019 1. Expressing support to the #IBelong Campaign to End Statelessness launched by UNHCR in 2014 and acknowledging the significant progress made by the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, the Republic of Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and the Republic of Uzbekistan in addressing statelessness including through confirmation or grant of citizenship of more than 68,000 people in the last five years; granting rights to stateless persons residing on their respective territories; and reforming national legislative frameworks on citizenship to improve the level of compliance with international standards; 2. Noting the commitments made by the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, the Republic of Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and the Republic of Uzbekistan under the major human rights instruments, including: the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights; the Convention on the Rights of the Child; and the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, which stipulate that States Parties should register all children immediately after birth without discrimination1 and the right to acquire nationality, as invoked by the resolutions adopted by the General Assembly and the Human Rights Council every year since 20012; 3. Noting active engagement of the Central Asian States with the Global Action Plan to End Statelessness, including Action 13 (resolve existing major situations of statelessness), Action 2 (ensure that no child is born stateless), 1 Turkmenistan acceded to the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons on 7/12/2011 and to the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness on 29/08/2012. Article 29 of the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrants Workers and Members of Their Families, provides that “each child of a migrant worker shall have the right to a name, to registration of birth and to a nationality.” In Central Asia, the Kyrgyz Republic on 29/09/2005 and Tajikistan on 8/01/2002 ratified this Convention. UN Human Rights Council, Birth registration and the right of everyone to recognition everywhere as a person before the law : Report of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, 17 June 2014, A/HRC/27/22, available at: http://www.refworld.org/docid/53ff324e4.html 2 UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Global Action Plan to End Statelessness, 4 November 2014, available at: http://www.refworld.org/docid/545b47d64.html 3