United Nations General Assembly A/HRC/FMI/2018/1 Distr.: General 3 October 2018 Original: English Human Rights Council Forum on Minority Issues Eleventh session 29 and 30 November 2018 Item 1 of the provisional agenda Adoption of the agenda and programme of work Provisional agenda and annotations Provisional agenda 1. Adoption of the agenda and programme of work. 2. Root causes and consequences of statelessness affecting minorities: preventing statelessness through a human rights approach. 3. Statelessness resulting from conflicts, forced population movements and migration affecting minorities: main challenges and possible solutions. 4. Ensuring the right to a nationality for persons belonging to minorities through facilitation of birth registration, naturalization and citizenship for stateless minorities. 5. Minority women and children affected by statelessness: advancing gender equality in nationality laws. 6. Concluding remarks. Annotations 1. Adoption of the agenda and programme of work Venue Pursuant to Human Rights Council resolutions 6/15 and 19/23, the eleventh session of the Forum on Minority Issues will be held on 29 and 30 November 2018 in Geneva (Palais des Nations, room XVII). The Forum on Minority Issues will have before it the provisional agenda contained in the present document to consider for adoption. The programme of work for the session is contained in the annex. Opening meeting The President of the Human Rights Council will deliver an opening statement, which will be followed by a video statement from the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, and statements by the Chair of the Forum on Minority Issues and the Special Rapporteur on minority issues. GE.18-16383(E) 