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across multiple institutions including the Ministry of Immigration and Displacement, the High Judicial
Council, the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs, and the Ministry of Justice, among others. Further,
legal aid organizations, particularly those supporting mobile legal aid teams in newly liberated areas,
would actively pursue cases involving nationality provision for children born of ISIS fathers. Actors
working on these separate initiatives would need to coordinate and share experiences among
themselves to strengthen public awareness, enhance knowledge and generate political will.
The Global Action Plan 2014-2024 provides a road map that encompasses elements of the rule of law
framework outlined above. The Action Plan has the potential to engender the necessary political will
to solve statelessness where specific national circumstances allow. The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable
Development also provides an incentive for UN Member States to recommit to the rule of law and to
issues related to nationality provision under Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 16.40 However,
more research is required to clarify how legal identity provision (Goal 16, target 16.9) and the rule of
law (Goal 16, target 16.3) can address statelessness effectively and without unintended consequences.
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UN General Assembly, Transforming Our World: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, A/RES/70/1, 21 October
2015.
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