12. RECOMMENDATION S TO THE ZIMBABWEAN AUTHORITIES  Allocate an adequate budget for a comprehensive 2023 census which will identify populations who are stateless and at risk of statelessness using disaggregated data by gender, age and status, in consultation with the UNHCR, the Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission and civil society organizations working on statelessness.  Adopt reasonable and inclusive administrative policies to ensure universal registration, including late registration, of descendants of victims of Gukurahundi in Matabeleland North and South Provinces without the requirement to produce their parents’ death certificates.  Take adequate measures to ensure the registration and restoration of Zimbabwean nationality to all who are entitled, including all those born in Zimbabwe to foreign parents.  Take progressive steps to ensure that everyone has the right to the opportunity to gain their living by work of their choice, including by ensuring that adults who are eligible to work in Zimbabwe have the necessary documents to enable them to seek employment.  Take progressive steps to fulfil the right of everyone, including stateless people, to enjoy the highest standards of physical and mental health that will permit them to live with dignity, equal and free from discrimination, protected by various international human rights instruments to which Zimbabwe is a party.  Take progressive steps to guarantee the right of everyone to access basic health care, including reproductive health care services in line with Section 76 of the Constitution.  Ensure the participation of civil society organizations and the Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission in implementing adequate measures to prevent and eradicate statelessness and discrimination against stateless individuals.  Conduct research on statelessness and develop a national action plan by 2023 to reduce, prevent and eliminate statelessness in Zimbabwe.  Support the adoption of a Regional Action Plan to end statelessness in the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) region so that SADC states take a regional approach to eliminating statelessness.  Amnesty International urges the authorities in Zimbabwe to take administrative and legislative steps to ensure that it prevents the statelessness of children, in line with General Comment No. 2 on article 6 of the African Children’s Charter. TO THE MINISTRY OF HOME AFFAIRS AND CULTURAL HERITAGE  The Minister of Home Affairs must take steps to decentralize registration centres and offices to ensure they are nearer to where people live. WE ARE LIKE “STRAY ANIMALS” THOUSANDS LIVING ON THE MARGINS DUE TO STATELESSNESS IN ZIMBABWE Amnesty International 35