Key Reflections 14 • Discrimination and the intersection of multiple discriminations is a key cause of statelessness among women and children. • Statelessness disproportionality affects women and their children even though women are carrying the global equal nationality rights movement. • International, national and local level advocacy should be strengthened. Women in power must advocate for all women’s rights. In doing this however, we must not undermine the role men can play as allies to advance the movement. • The recognition of every child’s right to a nationality is crucial and must be seen as both a human right and a development issue, with special emphasis on addressing intergenerational statelessness. • The child’s right to education, healthcare and social services should be upheld regardless of whether they have nationality or have been denied their right to a nationality and are therefore stateless. • Ensuring equal access to birth registration is critical in ensuring every child’s right to acquire a nationality. • Accession to relevant treaties and increased collaboration between different sectors is important, but this alone is insufficient, given the urgency of the issue. • Listening to and learning from the lived experiences of stateless children is essential if we want to implement useful and sustainable remedies. Conference Workshops Conference Sessions During the Conference, two workshops were dedicated to the themes of women and children. The first, ‘Birth registration and the risk of statelessness’ incorporated short presentations and videos highlighting practices in Malaysia, the Dominican Republic and Argentina, after which participants were invited to share examples of practices elsewhere, to identify common patterns which threaten to undermine progress on SDG 16.9 ‘legal identity for all including birth registration.’ The panel of the session ‘Born into irregularity, denied nationality,’ covered a wide array of issues on the right to nationality for children. Every ten minutes a child is born stateless due to no fault of their own and often, they are born into irregularity. The country situations of children’s access to nationality in Colombia, the USA, Thailand, Hong Kong, as well as children of migrant parents more generally was discussed. The second ‘Campaigning for equal citizenship: applying lessons learned’ saw participants working in small groups to identify and consider new applications for strategies and tactics to achieve national laws that are not discriminatory, foster inclusion and uphold universal human rights targeting policy makers, the public, traditional and social media outreach and advocacy and the international level. The panel ‘The child as “other”: Challenging contexts for ensuring the child’s right to nationality’ discussed the additional challenges faced when a child is viewed as ‘other’, thus significantly reducing the prospects for their situation to be resolved by law reform alone; and looked at other creative ways in which such situations can be addressed.