In June, in Chad, UNHCR and Agence Nationale des Titres Securisées, the new Government entity responsible for civil registration, signed an agreement which will support the inclusion of stateless persons and persons with undetermined nationality in the national civil registration and vital statistics system. The initiative will also improve statelessness statistics. As part of the agreement, the Government aims to deliver identity documents to IDPs and returnees at risk of statelessness and to register vital events for these groups. On 27 May, Lawyers for Human Rights (LHR) hosted a virtual book launch of a children’s book on childhood statelessness: “The Girl Who Lost Her Country”. LHR collaborated with the Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion to translate the book into Zulu. The book is an important advocacy and educational resource. On 25 June, in the United States, the Catholic Legal Immigration Network organized the webinar “Understanding and Screening for Statelessness” reaching over 400 legal practitioners. Participants learned about the different profiles of stateless people residing in the United States and were trained on how to identify if their client may be stateless. Implementation of the Global Action Plan In line with Action 1, Resolve existing situations of statelessness, the Government of Namibia issued a Cabinet Decision in April to naturalize all undocumented and stateless individuals who came to Namibia between 1977 to 1990. A similar Cabinet Decision was issued in 2010, covering all those who came to Namibia between 1930 to 1977. On 30 April, the President of the Dominican Republic signed Decree 297-21, authorizing the naturalization of fifty individuals of Haitian descent. All fifty were affected by the 2013 Constitutional Court ruling 168-13 and were minors at the time of submitting their naturalization requests. Since the adoption of Law 169-14 in May 2014, important steps have been taken by the Dominican Republic to confirm Dominican nationality and to process naturalization applications. This is the second executive decree on this matter, bringing the total number of naturalized individuals of Haitian descent to 799. Nationality documents confirming the status of those naturalized should follow. On 13 May, the National Organization for Civil Registration of Iran announced that over 88,000 applications were submitted following a legal amendment in June 2020 making it possible for children of Iranian mothers and foreign fathers to apply for citizenship. Of these, 1,401 applicants have so far received their nationality documents. With regard to Action 2, Ensure that no child is born stateless, and Action 6, Grant protection status to stateless migrants and facilitate their naturalization, on 20 April, the Government of Chile adopted a new Law on Migration and Foreigners that provides for the establishment of a Statelessness Determination Procedure (Art. 155) and the introduction of safeguards for the prevention of statelessness (Art. 173). Once the regulatory decree has been adopted, children born on the territory who would otherwise be stateless will be granted Chilean nationality. This includes children born to unknown parents. As of 20 May, more than 4,700 undocumented persons and persons with undetermined nationality in Kazakhstan have been identified through the country-wide identification and documentation campaign launched by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, UNHCR and civil society partners in October 2020. Out of this group, 3,400 people resolved their situation and obtained legal status documents, of whom more than 71 per cent were recognized as citizens of Kazakhstan, while close to 29 per cent obtained official statelessness status. 7