Proposed recommendations: 1. Continue its efforts to protect every child’s right to a nationality, including by adding legal safeguards; 2. Allow flexible evidence requirements for citizenship, accepting alternatives to birth certificates where refugees and asylum seekers cannot obtain them. Georgia Georgia 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 481 stateless people in the country in 2025.16 Georgia has a statelessness determination procedure (SDP) but barriers remain such as Georgian-language requirements and the lack of legal aid. Georgia also lacks safeguards against detention of stateless people. Further, there are not nationality safeguards in terms of naturalisation, childhood statelessness and deprivation of nationality.17 Proposed recommendations: 1. Monitor and strengthen a statelessness determination procedure that guarantees basic procedural rights and safeguards; 2. Strengthen safeguards against detention of stateless people; 3. Amend Georgia’s nationality laws to provide nationality protection. Saint Kitts and Nevis Saint Kitts and Nevis 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. Propose recommendations: 1. Conduct and make publicly available, mapping studies and data collection on statelessness in the country; 2. Accede the 1954 and 1961 Conventions and take all steps necessary to implements them. Sao Tome and Principe Sao Tome and Principe is a party to both the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness. This step happened in 2024 and was welcomed by international mechanisms. No official data is available on stateless people in the country. According to the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC), there is still need to promote universal birth registration in the country.18 Proposed recommendations: 1. Align its nationality laws with their ratification to the two Statelessness Conventions; 2. Continue its efforts to facilitate universal birth registration, including by raising public awareness and facilitating and expediting access to civil registry offices. 16 UNHCR, ‘Global trends’, available at: https://www.unhcr.org/refugee-statistics/insights/annexes/trends-annexes.html?situation=4. 17 European Network on Statelessness, ‘Statelessness Index: Georgia’, available at: https://index.statelessness.eu/. 18 Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion, ‘Human rights database’, available at: https://database.institutesi.org/?field_country_target_id[]=203&field_un_body_target_id=All&field_reporting_cycle_target_id_1=All&field_recommendation _accepted_no_value=All&field_specific_special_procedure_target_id_1=All&field_reference_to_statelessness_value=All. 5