result in a dedicated protection status associated with clear rights and support mechanisms. III. Withdraw the reservation to Article 13 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. IV. Withdraw the reservations to Articles 11, 13, 15, and 16 of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women. V. Add the categories ‘stateless’ and ‘unknown nationality’ in national census exercises. VI. Ensure that stateless persons or persons at risk of statelessness are not subjected to arbitrary detention because of their status. Instead, statelessness should be considered as a juridically relevant fact to be assessed when deciding whether to remove and/or detain persons. In this regard, establish clear standard operating procedures on the detention of migrants, addressed primarily to the Immigration Police and in line with international and regional human rights standards. VII. Maintain and publish data relating to migrants released from administrative detention due to the impossibility of returning them. VIII. Refrain from detaining migrants in respect of whom a returnable country of origin has not, or cannot, be established. IX. Include in legislation and fully implement non-coercive alternatives to the administrative detention of migrants pending removal, which are subject to procedural safeguards, including a time limit and periodic review. X. Provide access to an effective remedy for migrants detained following their denied entry into Malta, including access to free legal aid, as well as procedural safeguards, including a time limit on their detention. XI. Ensure that all children born in the territory of Malta, or to a Maltese parent, are guaranteed without discrimination their right to a nationality as enshrined in Article 7 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, including by: a. Removing the five-year legal residence requirement and putting concrete measures in place to fully implement the legal safeguard so that no child is born stateless in Malta. b. Removing the discriminatory limitations in Article 17 of the Maltese Citizenship Act, ruled unlawful by the European Court of Human Rights (Genovese v. Malta, 2011), so that no child is discriminated against in the acquisition of nationality due to their parents’ status. XII. Modify the Civil Code to ensure the birth registration of children born in international waters where their registration in another country is impossible due to legal or other considerations. XIII. Implement an information campaign or other awareness-raising activity on the importance of birth registration, ensuring that the campaign/activity reaches 6

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