seeking a viable future for the community.3 6. Namati is dedicated to placing the power of law in the hands of people. Namati works in partnership with community paralegals in six countries. The paralegals support their communities to protect common lands, enforce environmental law, and secure full rights to healthcare and citizenship. Together with the communities we serve, we strive to translate lessons from this grassroots experience into positive, large-scale changes to laws and systems. Globally, Namati convenes the Legal Empowerment Network, made up of more than 3,300 groups from 170 countries.4 7. Nationality For All (NFA) was formed from the work undertaken by the Statelessness Network Asia Pacific (SNAP) to build a regional civil society movement on addressing statelessness in the region. With the vision of ensuring nationality for all, NFA works closely with stateless persons, persons affected by statelessness, grassroot organizations, activists, and national NGOs. NFA aspires to increase the proximity to power of persons with lived experience of statelessness through their meaningful participation in the statelessness ecosystem.5 8. The Global Campaign for Equal Nationality Rights (GCENR) mobilises international action for the removal of gender discriminatory provisions from all nationality laws through its coalition of national and international organisations and activists.6 9. The Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion (ISI) is the first and only human rights NGO dedicated to working on statelessness at the global level. ISI’s mission is to promote inclusive societies by realising and protecting everyone’s right to a nationality. The Institute has made over 90 country specific UPR submissions on the human rights of stateless persons. ISI has also compiled summaries of the key human rights challenges related to statelessness in all countries under review under the 23rd to the 43rd UPR Sessions.7 Previous UPR of Bangladesh under the First, Second and Third Cycle 10. Bangladesh was previously reviewed during the 4th (First Cycle – 2009), 16th (Second Cycle – 2013) and 30th (Third Cycle – 2018) sessions of the UPR.8 11. In 2009, during the First Cycle, Bangladesh received two recommendations. Czechia recommended Bangladesh to amend its discriminatory nationality law regarding women’s ability to transfer their citizenship onto their children born in mixed marriages. Italy issued a recommendation to improve birth and death registrations without delays. Both recommendations were accepted.9 3 For more information about FRC, see: https://freerohingyacoalition.org/en/. For more information about Namati, see: https://namati.org/network/. 5 For more information about NFA, see: https://www.nationalityforall.org/. 6 For more information about GCENR, see: https://equalnationalityrights.org/. 7 For more information about ISI, see: https://www.institutesi.org/. 8 For more information about Bangladesh under the Universal Periodic Review, see: https://www.ohchr.org/en/hrbodies/upr/bd-index. 9 UN Human Rights Council, ‘Report of the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review. Bangladesh’, (5 October 2009), A/HRC/11/18, paras. 15 and 16. 4 2