addressing discrimination, but underlined a range of further concerns and recommendations thereto. The Committee looked specifically at the situation of Roma in Ukraine, raising concern as to the persistence of discrimination, stereotypes, and prejudices against Roma, and on the particularly insecure situation of Roma IDPs. One of the concluding recommendations of the Committee addressed the issue of statelessness among Roma in Ukraine: ‘Recalling its general recommendations No. 27 (2000) on discrimination against Roma and No. 25 (2000) on gender-related dimensions of racial discrimination, the Committee recommends that the State party: […] (e) Strengthen its efforts to provide all Roma with identity documents free of charge’28. 48) According to the representative of the Ukrainian Office of Ombudsman, the lowest level of tolerance amongst Ukrainians is towards Roma; the tolerance level is unacceptably low even among the most educated members of society such as judges, prosecutors, and teachers. As a State Party to all core human rights treaties which prohibit discrimination, Ukraine bears an international obligation not only to ensure the equal treatment of Roma and other groups but also to adequately identify and address the particular needs of the Roma. As a result, the discriminatory implementation practice directed at Roma in the documentation process creates a serious impediment to overcoming the issues of statelessness and its risk among the Roma population of Ukraine. 49) Therefore, in fulfilment of its international legal undertakings under the 1954 Convention, 1961 Convention, the CRC, the ECN and human rights framework, including the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, Ukraine should ensure the birth registration of every child born in the territory of Ukraine, including Roma children, and to enhance the free and direct access to documentation for all Roma in Ukraine. Recommendations 50) 28 Drawing on the information presented in this submission, and the collective expertise of the cosubmitting organisations, we propose the following recommendations to be made to Ukraine: I. Fully promote, respect, protect and fulfil its obligations towards stateless persons as set out by International (human rights) treaties. II. Ensure the right to acquire a nationality for all otherwise stateless children in Ukraine in accordance with Article 7 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. III. Ensure that all children have equal and free access to birth registration, regardless of their parent’s (legal) status or documentation. Fully implement the recommendation of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child in this regard. IV. Ensure that the draft law, which aims to introduce a statelessness determination procedure in Ukraine, is enacted as a matter of priority, after being improved to bring it in line with The Сoncluding observations and recommendations of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination on the combined twenty-second and twenty-third periodic reports of Ukraine. - CERD/C/UKR/CO/22-23. - 4 October 2016. – Paras. 19-22. - Available at: http://tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/treatybodyexternal/Download.aspx?symbolno=CERD%2fC%2fUKR%2fCO%2f2223&Lang=en. 12