A/HRC/FMI/2018/1 Documentation The documents for the session will be made available on the website of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/ HRC/Minority/Pages/Session11.aspx). Discussions During the two-day session, participants will be invited to contribute to four panel discussions under the general topic “Statelessness: A Minority Issue”. Each panel discussion will be introduced briefly by a number of experts and facilitated by a moderator, who will guide the discussion towards the formulation of specific recommendations. Participants will be encouraged to make statements or comments, to answer questions from the moderator and to suggest recommendations to be included in the outcome document that the Special Rapporteur will present to the Human Rights Council at its fortieth session, in March 2019. 2. Root causes and consequences of statelessness affecting minorities: preventing statelessness through a human rights approach Participants will discuss the impact of statelessness on a person’s ability to enjoy fully human rights and fundamental freedoms and to have access to remedy for human rights violations. Participants will also explore the interconnections between prevention of statelessness through the promotion and protection of the human rights of persons belonging to minorities, particularly through the prohibition and elimination of discrimination on the basis of ethnicity, religion and language and combating multiple vulnerabilities associated with statelessness. 3. Statelessness resulting from conflicts, forced population movements and migration affecting minorities: main challenges and possible solutions Participants will discuss the impact of conflicts and their consequences in terms of statelessness of persons belonging to minorities, as a result of, inter alia, forced displacement, population transfers and forced migration. Consideration will also be given to examples illustrating measures to adopt fair statelessness determination procedures in order to ensure that individuals enjoy their human rights during border crossing, until they acquire a nationality. 4. Ensuring the right to a nationality for persons belonging to minorities through facilitation of birth registration, naturalization and citizenship for stateless minorities Participants will address the challenges faced by persons belonging to minorities, including nomadic and other non-traditional minorities and minorities living in isolated border areas, in obtaining or demonstrating citizenship. Participants will also identify examples of effective measures for the elimination of laws and practices that arbitrarily deny or deprive persons of their nationality on the basis of discriminatory grounds such as race, ethnicity, religion and language. Participants will share views on effective ways to ensure access to the documentation needed to prove nationality or entitlement to nationality for all, without discrimination. They include, inter alia, facilitation of birth registration, naturalization, confirmation and acquisition of citizenship. 5. Minority women and children affected by statelessness: advancing gender equality in nationality laws Participants will discuss the impact of statelessness on children, including in terms of access to primary education and health-care services, and on women in terms of accessing sexual and reproductive health services and rights. 2