UUM Journal of Legal Studies, 13, No. 1 (January) 2022, pp: 345–380 have attracted many migrants from different countries within the ASEAN and Asia Pacific regions and make them head for its shores. According to the recommendations of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR)1, 75 percent of statelessness during the 1st and 2nd Cycles2 were due to discriminatory national laws in many states. Such discrimination varied and often were related to matters on race, ethnicity, gender, religion or disability, absence of birth registration, civil documentation of stateless people and children, the lack or absence of provision within the national laws for stateless children to acquire a nationality and state succession3 that could lead to statelessness. Researchers have identified that foundlings in the absence of birth or identification documentation, led to children becoming stateless (Bloom et al., 2017). Moreover, a child born to stateless parents due to a dispute of nationality laws and arbitrary deprivation, or denial of nationality with inadequate or no systematic regulation on nationality in matters of state succession, would automatically become stateless (Bloom et al., 2017). The impact of statelessness has detrimental effects on children, families, and society at large. Stateless persons are without nationality from any country and will not be able to access the human rights and privileges of citizens rendered by any state. Hence, the stateless children and people were often marginalized, and suffered in poverty that led to forced displacement (Wass L.V, Ricalde, M. J. V, 2017). A child or person who is stateless within his/her country of origin due to no citizenship will often be perceived and regarded as a foreigner 1 2 3 Note: “The Universal Periodic Review (UPR) is a process undertaking by the Human Rights Council to review the human rights records of all UN Member States to ensure equal treatment for every country. This mechanism is aimed at improving the human rights situation in all countries and address human rights violations wherever they occur. All UN member States declare their respective actions in improving the human rights situations in their countries and to fulfil their human rights obligations through this mechanism.” United Nations Human Rights Council website. https://www.ohchr.org/en/hrbodies/upr/pages/uprmain. aspx>. Retrieved date: 30.7.2019. The UPR is set up in 4.5-year in three cycles of UPR Working Group sessions annually with 14 States reviewed in each session. The sessions are held to enable continuous review of States’ human rights records. United Nations. Universal Periodic Review. https://unsdg.un.org/2030-agenda/strengthening-internationalhuman-rights/universal-periodic-review>. Retrieved date: 17.3.2021. Wass Laura, Verbeek, Ileen & Cickera, Amal. (2017). Booklet- Statelessness & Human Rights–The Universal Periodic Review, Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion (ISI). Retrieved date: 25.7.2018. 347