91 RECOMMENDATIONS MINISTRY OF JUSTICE (MoJ) Short-term recommendations • Ensure the judicial system's comprehensive follow-up on pending cases and give judicial courts instructions to speed up all existing cases. • Ensure that all stateless people are given legal assistance while going through court proceedings. • Implement existing nationality law provisions to make sure no child is born stateless. GENERAL PROSECUTOR OFFICE (GPO) Short-term recommendations • Instruct the competent judicial chambers to continue stateless suits and to act understandingly and leniently. MINISTRY OF PUBLIC HEALTH (MoPH), MINISTRY OF EDUCATION AND HIGHER EDUCATION (MoEHE), MINISTRY OF SOCIAL AFFAIRS (MoSA) Short-term recommendations • Identify all individuals who are stateless and grant them access to pertinent rights and services based on the identification documents they have, such as healthcare, education, and social safety. • Brief and instruct institutions such as schools, dispensaries, and hospitals, about stateless people’s rights to access these institutions. • Monitor the institutions’ compliance with decisions taken by the ministries, and sanction those who do not abide to them. • Implement digital case management technologies to enhance communication with stakeholders and offer relevant rights and services. • MoPH specifically: raise awareness regarding the necessity of children’s registration upon birth, in order to avoid statelessness through nonregistration. MINISTRY OF FINANCE (MoF) Short-term recommendations • Provide financial resources to the Bar Association, NGOs and other relevant groups to ensure that stateless people have access to rights and social services similarly to Lebanese citizens. • Provide financial support for free legal aid schemes so that stateless people do not have to pay to access legal services. © 2023 Siren Associates. All Rights Reserved.