24. Work with UNHCR and UNICEF to make the UNICEF-UNHCR Coalition for Every
Child’s Right to a Nationality effective at the field level.
25. Continue to encourage UNHCR to support stateless-led NGOs and CSOs at the global
and regional levels, including within the United States.
26. Encourage UNHCR to raise awareness of statelessness with campaign-oriented
organizations like Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International.
B. OTHER RECOMMENDATIONS
This final group of recommendations are derived from the evaluation’s findings but may be
more challenging for PRM’s mandate.
27. Support congressional proposals to protect stateless people in the US.
28. Urge the UN to update Sustainable Development Goal 16.9 to include the prevention
and reduction of statelessness and support UNHCR to integrate statelessness as a focus
within CRVS and development programs with UNDP, UNFPA, the World Bank and
other relevant actors.
29. Advocate within the UN through high-level diplomacy to create a global, UN-wide
coalition or steering committee to mainstream statelessness throughout the UN and
ensure statelessness remains a priority within the Global Compact on Refugees structure,
building on the current Inter-Agency Working Group, UN System-Wide Strategy to
Address Statelessness and Workplan, and the 2011 Guidance Note of the UN Secretary
General on statelessness.
30. Explore ways to engage journalists on statelessness.
31. Encourage UNHCR to create a statelessness sub-group at the annual UNHCR NGO
consultation.
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