obligation to ‘identify stateless persons in order to accord them appropriate standards of treatment under the Convention.’44 A formal statelessness determination procedure would offer the most effective means to protect the rights of stateless persons who do not have the right to RoC nationality, and would assist the State in its implementation of a statelessness safeguard.45 It would also allow the RoC to better understand the extent of statelessness on its territory and to better monitor the status and treatment of stateless persons.46 A statelessness determination procedure should, according to the UNHCR Handbook on Protection of Stateless Persons, be simple, accessible to everyone within the territory, and be fair and efficient.47 Recommendations 45. Based on the above information, the co-submitting organisations urge reviewing States to make the following recommendations to the Republic of Cyprus: I. Take all necessary active measures to respect and ensure human rights for every person within their jurisdiction, without discrimination of any kind; irrespective of the person’s race, language, religion, political or other opinion, national, ethnic or social origin, birth or other status, in accordance with UDHR article 2 and other human rights treaty provisions. II. Review and amend relevant legal provisions and ensure non-discriminatory application of the law to guarantee the right of all persons who have one RoC parent to obtain RoC nationality, irrespective of the other parent’s ethnicity or gender as well as the place of residence and/or means of entering the country. III. Guarantee equal access without discrimination (in law and practice) to fundamental rights for all people on their territory, irrespective of place of residence, mixed parentage, documentation or citizenship status, including primary and secondary education, healthcare and work. IV. Implement all recommendations previously made by UN treaty bodies, including those made by the Human Rights Committee to: a) take immediate steps to ensure Turkish Cypriots have the same rights and obligations as all other Cypriot citizens, both in law and in fact, to vote and stand for elections so as to be in full compliance with articles 25 and 26 of the Covenant’, and b) ‘take adequate measures to ensure that the nationality laws are applied indiscriminately on the basis of clearly defined criteria. It should ensure that applicants have access to information concerning the requirements of citizenship and that they receive a decision on their application for citizenship within a reasonable period of time.’ 44 UNHCR, Statelessness Handbook, para 144. 45 UNHCR, Good Practices Paper – Action 6: Establishing Statelessness Determination Procedures to Protect Stateless Persons, 11 July 2016, available at: http://www.refworld.org/docid/57836cff4.html, p. 2. 46 UNHCR, Global Action Plan to End Statelessness, Action 6, 4 November 2014, available at: http://www.refworld.org/docid/545b47d64.html; UNHCR, Mapping Statelessness in Austria, January 2017, available at: http://www.refworld.org/docid/58b6e5b14.html, para 125. 47 UNHCR, Statelessness Handbook, paras. 63, 68 and 69.