Myanmar must take a comprehensive approach to addressing statelessness in the country, by ensuring
everyone’s right to acquire and retain their nationality, on the basis of non-discriminatory and non-arbitrary
criteria that adheres to international norms. This approach must include the Rohingya who have been
arbitrarily deprived of their nationality, as well as other groups.
The risks of genocide related to ID systems should be factored into the design and implementation of
Myanmar’s digital system. The early warning systems developed by genocide prevention experts, should
inform this including the potential for ID systems to stigmatise and identify members of protected groups
for persecution, and the potential for citizenship and identification frameworks to deny fundamental human
rights to these groups.
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