1. Amend Mauritania’s law to eradicate gender discrimination by allowing women to confer their nationality onto their children and spouses; 2. Ensure minorities have equal access to citizenship and do not face discrimination in enjoying their right to a nationality; 3. Accede the 1954 and 1961 Conventions and take all steps necessary to implements them. Nauru Nauru is not a party to either the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons or the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness. No official data is available on stateless people in the country. There are no legal safeguards against childhood statelessness.6 Proposed recommendations: 1. Guarantee basic procedural rights and safeguards against childhood statelessness; 2. Accede the 1954 and 1961 Conventions and take all steps necessary to implements them. Rwanda Rwanda is a party to both the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness. According to UNHCR, there were 14,500 stateless people in the country in 2025.7 Certain ethnic minorities continue to face systematic barriers to citizenship and documentation, including children born to Burundian, Congolese and other refugee parents. Further, there has been a lack of universal birth registration for remote and displaced communities.8 Proposed recommendations: 1. Ensure minorities have equal access to citizenship and do not face discrimination in enjoying their right to a nationality, including children born to refugee parents; 2. Continue its efforts to facilitate universal birth registration, including by raising public awareness and facilitating and expediting access to civil registry offices. Nepal Nepal is not a party to either the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons or the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness. According to UNHCR, there were 477 stateless people in the country in 2025.9 However, estimates suggest higher numbers of stateless people in the country, likely in the hundreds of thousands. Nepal does not provide a durable solution to long-term refugees and does not protect their children’s right to nationality. Nepalese women do not enjoy equal citizenship rights and are prevented from passing their nationality to their children or to a foreign spouse on equal terms with men. Further, there are gaps in civil registration and documentation for marginalised groups, including some indigenous and Dalit communities.10 Proposed recommendations: 1. Amend Nepal’s nationality laws to eradicate gender discrimination by allowing women to confer their nationality onto their children and spouses; 2. Ensure minorities and refugees do not face discrimination in enjoying their right to a nationality; 3. Continue its efforts to protect every child’s right to a nationality, including by adding legal safeguards; 4. Accede the 1954 and 1961 Conventions and take all steps necessary to implements them. Saint Lucia 6 Nationality for All, ‘Statelessness Encyclopaedia Asia Pacific’, available at: https://nationalityforall.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/SEAP-Report- 2024Detailed-Version.pdf. 7 UNHCR, ‘Global trends’, available at: https://www.unhcr.org/refugee-statistics/insights/annexes/trends-annexes.html?situation=4. 8 Citizenship Rights in Africa Initiative, ‘Rwanda’, available at: https://citizenshiprightsafrica.org/region/rwanda/. 9 UNHCR, ‘Global trends’, available at: https://www.unhcr.org/refugee-statistics/insights/annexes/trends-annexes.html?situation=4. 10 Nationality for All, ‘Statelessness Encyclopaedia Asia Pacific’, available at: https://nationalityforall.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/SEAP-Report2024Detailed-Version.pdf. 3