6. Consequently, this submission has been structured to highlight questions that may be raised by the Committee in its Constructive Dialogue with Hungary. These questions are included in text boxes under each substantive section. At the end of the submission, we have included recommendations that may be drawn on by the Committee in formulating its Concluding Observations to Hungary. The Co-Submitting Organisations 7. ISI is an independent non-profit organisation committed to promoting the human rights of stateless persons and fostering inclusion to ultimately end statelessness. Addressing childhood statelessness is one of the core thematic priorities of the Institute. As part of this work, ISI has made over fifteen country submissions to the Committee,9 developed a range of resources on the child’s right to a nationality and childhood statelessness, including a Toolkit on Addressing the Right to a Nationality through the Convention on the Rights of the Child,10 Statelessness Essentials Booklets on Childhood Statelessness,11 the Convention on the Rights of the Child12 and other related issues,13 The 2017 World’s Stateless Report: Children;14 and a range of resources for children, which can be found online.15 ISI has also contributed its expertise and information towards General Recommendations of the Committee as well as Joint General Recommendations by the Committee and the CMW. 8. The European Network on Statelessness (ENS) is a civil society alliance of NGOs, lawyers, academics and other independent experts committed to addressing statelessness in Europe. Based in London, it currently has over 140 members in 40 European countries. ENS organises its work around three pillars – namely, law and policy development, awareness-raising, and capacity-building. ENS provides expert advice and support to a range of stakeholders, including governments. Promoting every child’s right to a nationality in Europe is a thematic priority for ENS and its #StatelessKids campaign16 aimed to promote the enjoyment of a nationality – and thereby the prevention of statelessness – by all children who are born in Europe or who are born to European parents in other parts of the world. The Statelessness Index17, maintained and developed by ENS and its members, is an online comparative tool that assesses European countries’ law, policy and practice on the protection of stateless people and the prevention and reduction of statelessness against international norms and good practice. 9. The Hungarian Helsinki Committee is a leading human rights organisation, with a primary focus on preserving the rule of law, independent civil society and a fair criminal justice system, the right to be free from torture and inhuman treatment, and the right to asylum and international protection. The HHC has been, since 2006, a pioneering NGO in defending the rights of stateless persons and providing free-of-charge legal assistance to stateless persons, and, as a founding member of ENS, a key provider of training for state, civil society and international actors on statelessness-related legal matters. In the past decade, the HHC has conducted ground-breaking research into the prevention and reduction of statelessness in Hungary, as well as the protection of stateless persons. The HHC has been awarded with some of the world’s most prestigious human rights awards in recent years, including the Calouste Gulbenkian Prize (Portugal, 2017), the William D. Zabel Human Rights Award by Human Rights First (US, 2018), the Freedom Award by the International Federation of Liberal Youth (2018), the ProAsyl Prize (Germany, 2018) and the global “Civil Rights Defender of the Year” award by Civil Rights Defenders (2019, Sweden). 9 See https://www.institutesi.org/core-activities/human-rights-advocacy-crc. See https://files.institutesi.org/CRC_Toolkit_Final.pdf 11 See https://files.institutesi.org/childhood-statelessness.pdf 12 See https://files.institutesi.org/statelessness-and-CRC.pdf 13 For all the Essentials Booklets, see https://www.institutesi.org/core-activities/statelessness-essentials-booklet-series. 14 See https://files.institutesi.org/worldsstateless17.pdf 15 See http://kids.worldsstateless.org/. 16 See https://www.statelessness.eu/statelesskids-no-child-should-be-stateless. ISI was an expert partner for the campaign. 17 See https://index.statelessness.eu 10 3