D. Clear safeguards against statelessness should be introduced, ensuring that all children born in the territory who would otherwise be stateless are recognised as citizens of Myanmar. E. The law should guarantee due process, impose reasonable time limits for decision making and ensure the right of review and appeal of administrative decisions. The law should incentivise good decision making, and decision makers should be obligated to provide written reasons for their decisions. F. The grounds for loss and revocation of citizenship should be revised to protect against discrimination and arbitrariness and to bring them in line with international standards.1 In no circumstances should children lose their citizenship because their parents’ citizenship is lost or revoked. 2 A civilian government of Myanmar should address the multiple challenges related to the discriminatory and arbitrary implementation of the law, which undermines the rule of law, public faith in the legal system and social cohesion. In particular: A. All administrative procedures should be published and made available in languages understood by the applicants, to ensure that the requirements are known to all applicants, and to protect against discrepancies in the evidence required of different applicants. B. All public servants should receive training and ongoing professional development and support in maintaining administrative and procedural practices and standards, including in relation to non-discrimination, transparency, accountability and anti-corruption. C. The evidentiary burden on applicants should be reduced and shared with the state. Authorities should have greater discretion to accept alternative evidence in the absence of the listed documents, but less discretion to increase the evidentiary burden on applicants. D. Civil registration should be more accessible and streamlined, including through minimising the number of visits to government offices and operating mobile clinics in remote areas. E. Public servants should adhere to the highest professional standards when inputting data into official forms and applicants should not be penalised for administrative errors in data entry or translation. 3 A civilian government of Myanmar should strengthen its adherence with international standards. In particular: A. Myanmar should implement all relevant recommendations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child and the Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women. B. Myanmar should accede to the core human rights treaties (including the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights) as well as the 1954 Convention Relating to the Status of Stateless Persons (CRSSP) and the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness. C. Myanmar should accept and implement recommendations on protecting the right to nationality and eradicating statelessness, of relevant UN Special Rapporteurs, Independent Commissions and Mechanisms and human rights organisations. Institute on Statelessness an Inclusion, ‘Principles on Deprivation of Nationality as a National Security Measure,’ (2020), available at: https://files.institutesi.org/ PRINCIPLES.pdf. 1 6