support to a range of stakeholders, including governments. This submission partially draws on information and analysis from ENS’s Statelessness Index, which covers Germany.4 5. The Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion (ISI)5 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 100 country specific UPR submissions on the human rights of stateless persons. ISI has also compiled summaries of the key challenges related to statelessness in all countries under review under the 23rd to the 42nd UPR Sessions. Previous UPR and UN Treaty bodies’ recommendations to Germany 6. Germany underwent three Universal Periodic Reviews between 2018 and 2009. During the Third Cycle (2018), Germany received two recommendations to guarantee the right of every child born in Germany to be registered, irrespective of their migration status or that of their parents, which it accepted.6 It also received a recommendation to establish a specific procedure to determine statelessness that would guarantee the protection of rights provided in the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons (1954 Convention), which it noted.7 7. In 2008, Germany had also received a recommendation from the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination to facilitate the acquisition of German nationality by long-term residents and persons born in Germany to promote their integration who may wish to acquire German nationality without relinquishing their own.8 Germany’s International obligations 8. Germany ratified the 1954 Convention on the Status of Stateless Persons (1954 Convention), but it retains two significant reservations, namely the right not to apply Article 27 (travel documents) and to restrict the application of Article 23 (access to social welfare) to stateless people who are refugees. Germany also acceded to the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness (1961 Convention). It has yet to examine the necessity of maintaining these reservations following its commitment at the UNHCR High Level Segment on Statelessness in 2019.9 4 ENS, Statelessness Index: Germany, https://index.statelessness.eu/country/germany. For more information, see https://www.institutesi.org/. 6 Human Rights Council (HRC), Report of the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review, Germany, 11 July 2018, Doc. A/HRC/39/9, Paras 155.258 (recommendation from Ecuador) and 155.259 (recommendation from the Philippines), available at: https://undocs.org/A/HRC/39/9. 7 HRC, Report of the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review, Germany, 11 July 2018, Doc. A/HRC/39/9, Para 155.257 (recommendation from Burkina Faso), available at: https://daccessods.un.org/access.nsf/Get?OpenAgent&DS=A/HRC/39/9&Lang=E. 8 Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, 22 September 2008, Consideration of Reports Submitted by State Parties under Article 9 of the Convention, (CERD)CERD/C/DEU/CO/18, para 20, available at: https://documents-ddsny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/G08/441/50/PDF/G0844150.pdf?OpenElement. 9 See UNHCR, Results of the High Level Segment on Statelessness in October 2019: https://www.unhcr.org/ibelong/results-ofthe-high-level-segment-on-statelessness/. 5 1