Regional Workshop on Statelessness and the Rights of Women and Children rights to men to acquire, change and retain their nationality (particularly to avoid statelessness), as well as to pass on their nationality to their children. CERD provides that the right to a nationality should be enjoyed without distinction as to “race, colour, or national or ethnic origin”, a provision which is also reflected in the CRC and ICCPR.  Participants at the Workshop noted that ASEAN has adopted a number of instruments  ASEAN Declaration on the Protection and that include standards that Promotion on the Rights of Migrant can help to prevent and Workers reduce statelessness and address the human rights  Declaration on the Elimination of challenges that stateless Violence Against Women in the ASEAN persons face in various Region contexts. These  ASEAN Declaration Against Trafficking in instruments include the Persons Particularly Women and ASEAN Declaration on the Children Protection and Promotion of the Rights of Migrant Workers, the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence Against Women in the ASEAN Region and the ASEAN Declaration Against Trafficking in Persons Particularly Women and Children. They encourage co-operation between States to, for example, establish the nationality of migrant workers who are undocumented and to preserve the integrity of the travel documents of victims of trafficking. ASEAN instruments that are good tools to prevent and reduce statelessness include the: AICHR’s mandate to promote and protect the human rights of all ASEAN peoples extends to addressing the causes and consequences of statelessness within this framework. The applicable international human rights law framework provides a legal basis under which AICHR and ASEAN Member States can rely and build upon to improve the situation of stateless people in the region. Some key areas were highlighted at the Workshop where AICHR and ASEAN Member States could further explore how to address statelessness in the region. They include:  8 Encouraging accession and ratification to key international human rights instruments, particularly the 1954 Convention Relating to the Status of Stateless Persons, and the 1961 Convention on Reduction of Statelessness;

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