Joint Submission to the Committee on the Rights of the Child at the 93rd Pre-Sessional Working Group. Civil society submission on the right of every child to acquire and preserve a nationality under Article 7 and 8 of the Convention of the Rights of the Child (CRC) in accordance with the Guiding Principles to the Convention Sweden Introduction 1. The Swedish Organization Against Statelessness (SOAS) and the Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion (ISI) welcome the opportunity to make this submission to the Committee on the Rights of the Child (hereafter the Committee) regarding Sweden’s compliance with every child’s right to acquire a nationality under Article 7 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (hereafter the CRC) and preserve their nationality under Article 8 of the CRC. This submission also draws on the Guiding Principles of the CRC, especially the freedom from discrimination (Article 2) and the best interests of the child (Article 3). 2. This thematic submission is based on the co-submitting organisations' expertise and considerable efforts to address the issues of statelessness and realise every child's right to acquire a nationality in Sweden. The submission focuses on: • Limited access to Swedish nationality for stateless children born on the territory • Limited access to effective Swedish nationality for children at risk of statelessness born abroad • Lack of a statelessness determination procedure • The practice of registering children with ‘unknown nationality’ • Lack of transparency and adequate data on childhood statelessness and ‘unknown nationality’. 1