Recommendations 29. Based on the content of this submission, the Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion urges reviewing states to make the following recommendations to Cameroon: I. Ensure that all national laws, regulations and policies are in line with Cameroon’s obligations under international law and its Constitution, ensure the right of every child to acquire a nationality, and prevent childhood statelessness. II. Prevent discrimination against those who are particularly vulnerable to statelessness due to their circumstances or discriminatory legal provisions, in particular, children born in the Bakassi peninsula, children whose births have not been registered, extra-marital children, disabled children, children born to foreign parents, adopted children and children whose parents have been deprived of their nationality. III. Take all necessary steps to break down barriers to accessing birth registration, and ensure that the births of all children born in Cameroon are registered immediately. Ensure nondiscriminatory, comprehensive and consistent implementation of regulations relevant to birth registration, in particular of children born in the Bakassi peninsula, in rural areas, among indigenous populations and for children not born in hospitals, including by providing for free birth registration for those unable to pay the current costs and raising awareness about the importance of birth registration. IV. Take all necessary steps to prevent forced repatriation of Nigerian asylum seekers and to prevent and avoid (risks of) statelessness as a result of forced migration. Ensure that all children born to asylum seekers are registered at birth and can acquire a nationality. V. Fully implement the safeguards against statelessness in the Nationality Code to ensure that any child born in Cameroon who would otherwise be stateless may acquire Cameroonian nationality, whatever the place of birth of his or her parents. VI. Undertake, as soon as possible, a full population census with a view to improving the available data on the population as a whole. In the course of the preparation and implementation of the census pay particular attention to the Bakassi Peninsula taking into consideration their particular history and culture as well as questions relating to their access to nationality. VII. Ratify the CRPD and accede to the 1954 and 1961 Statelessness Conventions. 6