18. While welcoming the 2015 amendments to the law on citizenship that provide for a citizenship entitlement for children born in Belarus to stateless parents temporarily residing there, the Committee, recalling target 16.9 of the Sustainable Development Goals, recommends that the State party:
(a) Intensify the collection of data on stateless children, disaggregated by age, sex, country of origin or former habitual residence and residence in Belarus;
(b) Further strengthen the prevention of statelessness among children, including by extending protection to children born to undocumented stateless parents;
(c) Ensure that all stateless children have access to education and health care;
(d) Consider ratifying the Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons, the Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness, the European Convention on Nationality and the Council of Europe Convention on the Avoidance of Statelessness in relation to State Succession.
Protection/Enjoyment of rights
Stateless Persons - Other
Born on territory
International Instruments
Data Collection/Monitoring/Reporting