CF “The Right to Protection” 57, Shchekavytska Str., Kyiv, Ukraine +38 (044) 337 17 63; +38 (093) 039 00 71 e-mail: sta@r2p.org.ua www.r2p.org.ua Right to Protection (R2P) is a Ukrainian not-for profit organisation operating in Ukraine. R2P ensures the protection and human rights of refugees who find themselves in Ukraine due to dire circumstances, the internally displaced persons (IDPs), the stateless and those at risk of statelessness and the undocumented. Starting from June 2017 with support of UNHCR, R2P implements the program on legal assistance to stateless population in Kyiv, Kharkiv and Donetsk regions, Ukraine. What we do: •Provide direct legal assistance. Starting from June 2017, we counselled 654 beneficiaries on birth registration, confirmation and acquisition of nationality so far. Moreover, the project team assisted in obtaining national passport for 97 persons, assisted in birth registration and obtaining birth certificate for 34 person and assisted in obtaining duplicate of birth certificate for 81 undocumented individuals. •Capacity building. R2P conducts roundtables dedicated to the most immediate challenges of statelessness in Ukraine, with the involvement of the respective governmental authorities. On the regular basis, R2P project team conducts trainings for the lawyers and attorneys of free legal aid centers, for paralegals, for the employees of the Ministry of justice who provides primary legal aid to stateless population and to those at risk of statelessness. •Advocacy activities. We identify the systematic gaps in legislation and law enforcement related to statelessness and address the identified problems to the respective state authorities and institutions with the proposals for changes. R2P in coalition with the other civil society organizations submitted alternative reports to the Committee on the Rights of the Child, Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, and the Universal Periodic Review related to the issue of statelessness. ADC Memorial Brussels 26, Rue d’Edimbourg, 1050 Ixelles, Belgium e-mail: contact@adcmemorial.org adcmemorial.org Anti-Discrimination Centre Memorial is Brussels-based organization that works against discrimination of minorities and for protection of the rights of migrants in the countries of Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Central focus of all the activities of ADC Memorial has been the defense of the rights of minorities and vulnerable groups, opposition to racism, sexism, homophobia and all other forms of xenophobia. Among priorities of work of ADC Memorial are the litigation of the rights of stateless persons who are being illegally kept in prison conditions in centres for temporary detention of foreign nationals (although deportation of stateless persons is not possible). ADC Memorial works a lot on the rights of Roma who continue to suffer from various forms of systemic discrimination. The report on the situation of Roma – victims of the war in Eastern Ukraine (2015) was supplemented in 2016 by a photo report “It seems they do not shoot today…” Strategic litigation and advocacy work of ADC Memorial ADC Memorial is actively working to overcome statelessness in the strategic surface. In particular, by lodging complaints to the ECtHR and national courts, with further advocating the rights of the stateless people. One of the most significant cases is “Kim vs Russia” (2015) where the ECtHR recognized, among other things, a violation of Article 5 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, namely the right to liberty and security of a person. In 2017, a strategic case of Noe Mskhiladze was won in the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation; the amendments of the law are pending (on the stage of Parliament). If adopted, they would change the situation of stateless people and migrants detained in special facilities.