➢ All States are encouraged to work with UN human rights mechanisms and partners to ensure
timely implementation of supported recommendations relating to statelessness received
through UN human rights mechanisms, including Treaty Bodies, Special Procedures and the
Universal Periodic Review (UPR), and to use these mechanisms more broadly. For additional
information on the UPR and statelessness, see https://www.upr-info.org/database/ and search
by “statelessness.” For an overview of recommendations by human rights mechanisms related
to statelessness, please see the Universal Human Rights Index, and search under Theme G7
“Stateless persons”.
➢ All States with gender discrimination in nationality laws or other identified issues affecting
mothers’ ability to confer nationality to their children are encouraged to make time-bound
pledges for law reform at the 2019 High-Level Event, as well as review other aspects of their
nationality laws that could result in statelessness. Refer to information on States that have
gender discrimination in their nationality laws. Find good practices with respect to the removal
of gender discrimination from nationality laws here.
➢ All States are encouraged to pledge to ensure that any child born on the territory who would
otherwise be stateless will acquire the nationality of the State of birth. See good practices with
respect to ensuring that no child is born stateless here.
➢ All States are encouraged to take practical steps to realize their commitment under SDG 16.9 to
ensure birth registration for all. Refer to good practices with respect to ensuring birth
registration to prevent statelessness.
➢ All States that do not yet have Statelessness Determination Procedures (SDPs) in place are
encouraged to make time-bound pledges to adopt such procedures at the 2019High-Level Event.
See good practices with respect to SDPs.
➢ All States are encouraged to include a question on country of citizenship in their upcoming
population census (in accordance with Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration,
paragraph 17g), in which the category “stateless” should be listed as a response option (in line
with Revision 3 of the Principles and Recommendations for Population and Housing Censuses,
paragraph 4.112).
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