SOLVING STATELESSNESS • Ensuring that the thematic resolutions on birth registration and arbitrary deprivation are continued and strengthened as appropriate and that other relevant thematic resolutions address statelessness (e.g. the biennial resolution on the rights of minorities); • Ensuring that the right to nationality is addressed thoughtfully in Human Rights Council resolutions dealing with relevant country situations; • Improving the attention paid to statelessness and right to nationality by the Special Procedures of the Human Rights Council; • Improving the consistency with which recommendations concerning statelessness and right to nationality matters are made in the UPR by making good use of a new heading on statelessness in the background documentation for the third cycle; • Improving the quality of recommendations made in the UPR, including by considering the strategic advantages of making specific or general recommendations; • Ensuring that the treaty bodies have complete and up to date information to inform more detailed recommendations; • Ensuring that the different human rights mechanisms are exploited strategically – taking into consideration their different strengths and weaknesses – to raise awareness, clarify standards, and spread good practices; • Ensuring more direct follow-up with States (on both UPR and treaty body recommendations) at the international and national levels. NGOs and Member States interested in advancing the goals of the Campaign to End Statelessness have begun conferring with each other and with UNHCR and OHCHR about how best to go about achieving many of these things. That fact alone holds significant promise, and we are hopeful that this joined up advocacy will yield additional concrete results in the years to come. 45