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• Facilitate inclusive legislative processes by engaging with affected communities and civil society
during legal reform consultations.
Human Rights Institutions
• Actively monitor and investigate rights violations
related to statelessness, discrimination in civil registration and documentation, and barriers to citizenship, with a focus on systemic issues affecting
Roma and other marginalised communities.
• Issue recommendations to relevant authorities on
eliminating discriminatory practices, improving
procedural safeguards, and ensuring access to documentation and legal identity in practice.
• Facilitate dialogue and cooperation between public institutions, civil society organisations, and
affected communities to address the prevention
and reduction of statelessness and promote rights-based reforms.
• Engage in strategic advocacy or legal intervention
in key cases to help establish standards on statelessness, legal identity, and access to rights.
• Contribute to international reporting processes
and regional human rights monitoring by documenting trends and progress in reducing statelessness and improving access to citizenship.
European Union
• Encourage and support alignment of internal laws
with international standards concerning statelessness, birth and civil registration, and anti-discrimination, including through the active engagement of EU Delegations with civil society, affected
communities, and public authorities to improve
and implement relevant laws and standards.
• Monitor implementation of commitments made
under regional frameworks including the 2019 Poznan Declaration and EU Strategic Framework for
Roma Equality, Inclusion and Participation 20202030.
• Encourage development of inclusive data collection, monitoring, and reporting frameworks that
involve civil society participation to track progress
on addressing (risk of ) statelessness and civil registration.
• Ensure that statelessness and risk of statelessness
are duly considered in the design and implementation of readmission, return, and migration cooperation agreements between EU and Western Balkans
Beneficiaries, including through appropriate safeguards and identification mechanisms.
Council of Europe
• Support public authorities in harmonising legislation and policies on civil registration, citizenship,
and statelessness with European and international
human rights standards.
• Integrate statelessness as a key issue within the
EU Enlargement process, including by monitoring progress to address statelessness under fundamental rights, Roma inclusion, migration, and
anti-discrimination benchmarks.
• Facilitate platforms for dialogue and knowledge
exchange among Beneficiaries, civil society, and
regional and international partners focused on
addressing statelessness among Roma communities in the Western Balkans.
• Provide targeted funding through existing and
future instruments to support work to address
statelessness in the region, including networking,
knowledge-sharing, capacity-building, community
engagement, provision of legal aid, and advocacy
activities.
• Encourage the inclusion of civil society organisations with expertise on statelessness and minority
rights in consultative and monitoring processes,
including through allocating funding to future
projects.
• Promote and facilitate regional cooperation initiatives to address statelessness, including the sharing of good practice and knowledge exchange.
• Advocate for the incorporation of statelessness-related benchmarks into broader human rights, anti-discrimination, and inclusion frameworks.