CONTENTS Preface 1 List of Abbreviations 3 Introduction Volker Türk 7 PART 1 Perspectives, Tools, and Techniques 11 1. Making effective use of UN human rights mechanisms to solve statelessness Melanie J. Khanna and Peggy Brett 13 2. The Sustainable Development Goals and solutions to statelessness Radha Govil 47 3. Ensuring that today’s refugees are not tomorrow’s stateless: solutions in a refugee context 71 Lucy Hovil 4. Addressing statelessness through the rights to equality and non-discrimination 99 Amal de Chickera and Joanna Whiteman 5. Litigating against statelessness Laura Bingham and Liliana Gamboa 129 6. “Benchmarking” legal protection against statelessness Olivier Willem Vonk, Costica Dumbrava, Maarten Peter Vink and Gerard-René de Groot 163 7. Securing every child’s right to a nationality in a changing world: The nationality implications of international surrogacy 191 Claire Achmad