The Plight of the Rightless: Mapping and Understanding Statelessness in Tripoli-V1.3 2. Recognize the actual number of non-refugee stateless persons in Lebanon (around 27,000) and depoliticize the problem through a campaign which will put the solution at a technical level. Detection 3. Start a nationwide mapping of stateless people in collaboration with the Central Administration of Statistics and with the support of the Council of Ministers. 4. Collect, collate, and consolidate data related to stateless individuals from relevant public entities: Schools, Hospitals, Prisons, Internal Security Forces, General Security, etc. 5. Create a hotline for information and support to stateless persons at the Ministry of Interior. This hotline will be temporary and shall last until statelessness has been eliminated. Reduction 6. Conduct an extended investigation of the status of people who have filed lawsuits to further detect at which stage they are, and what type of legal and administrative impediments they are facing, as most surveyed stateless families lack the legal knowledge to accurately describe which court stage they have reached. Start with a pilot in Tripoli to derive strategic recommendations to optimize bureaucratic processes and locate quick wins. 7. Introduce administrative deadlines for General Security and Civil Status Officer responses to court requests related to statelessness. This can be done through a decision rendered by the Minister of Interior and Municipalities requesting that stakeholders abide by the delays and deadlines. In this case, stateless persons with pending cases before the judiciary should have the possibility to report any breach of specified delays and deadlines to the Ministry of Interior and Municipalities by means of a hotline to be created as provided in recommendation number 5. 8. Introduce administrative deadlines for legal responses sent by the Committee of Cases at the Ministry of Justice regarding stateless cases. 9. Set deadlines for the enforcement of court decisions by the Directorate of Personal Status. This should be done by means of a ministerial decision rendered by the Minister of Interior and Municipalities. 10. Initiate a draft law valid for a specific period of time which creates a special administrative process for resolving stateless cases without the need to resort to courts and sets up 55