11th Session, Geneva, 29 and 30 November 2018 violations. It is important to promote an understanding of the issue of statelessness, through analyzing its root causes and consequences in order to discuss the possible ways for effective prevention. With more than three quarters of the world’s stateless being persons belonging to minorities, it is urgent to consider more directly and closely how their human rights violations can be addressed to avoid the denial or deprivation of nationality resulting in statelessness for millions of minorities. Exploring the interconnections between prevention of statelessness through the promotion and protection of the human rights of persons belonging to minorities, and in particular through prohibition and elimination of discrimination on the basis of ethnicity, religion or language can offer a useful opportunity to further explore the multiple vulnerabilities associated with statelessness.  Statelessness resulting from conflicts, forced population movements and migration affecting minorities: main challenges and possible solutions Conflicts are one of the most significant drivers of forced migration and statelessness for minorities, with most of the world’s conflicts in recent decades being internal, often involving long-standing grievances. The frequency and severity of disputes and conflicts in many states may often result in tragic consequences for minorities. Persons belonging to minorities may particularly be vulnerable to statelessness as a result of, inter alia, forced displacement, population transfers or migration. In situations when persons belonging to minorities are forced to flee during a conflict or a natural or man-made disaster, this may often result in documents being left behind or lost, thus in lack of means to provide any evidence of citizenship or of other identification documents and therefore-de facto statelessness. In those circumstances the establishment of fair statelessness determination procedures (SDPs) is essential in order to ensure that during border crossing individuals can enjoy the rights to which they are entitled to until they acquire a nationality. 3