and Justice Initiative briefed participants on the work of the COVID-19 Emergency Statelessness Fund Consortium and the Consortium’s report on COVID-19 and stateless people. On 15 April, the Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion convened the webinar “How to Protect Every Child’s Right to a Nationality – A Discussion with the UN Treaty Body Experts”. Panelists exchanged ideas about how best to give effect to the right to a nationality and discussed the evolving approaches and jurisprudence of their respective committees. The panelists also unpacked the challenges and opportunities that come with monitoring a cross-cutting issue like the right to a nationality. On 17 June, the COVID-19 Emergency Statelessness Fund Consortium launched its report “TOGETHER WE CAN: The COVID-19 Impact on Stateless People & A Roadmap for Change”. The report documents the impacts of the pandemic on stateless people and is grounded in the experiences and expertise of CESF Consortium members in 13 countries. The report sets out a roadmap to address the structural discrimination and exclusion of stateless people during times of COVID-19 and beyond. On 21 April, the European Network on Statelessness (ENS) convened the virtual event “Statelessness and the Right to Health beyond the pandemic” to launch its report “Situation assessment of statelessness, health, and COVID-19 in Europe” which focuses on the intersection of statelessness and the right to health. On 21 June, the International Institute of Humanitarian Law, in partnership with UNHCR, inaugurated its first Online Course on Statelessness which will run through 16 July. Participants of the course include over 50 government officials, civil society representatives and academics from 38 countries across the world. On 14 June, the Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion held a fifth virtual lecture as part of the Global Seminar Series on Citizenship Stripping entitled “Deprivation of nationality as a counterterrorism measure: A human rights and security perspective”. On 1 June, the Global Campaign for Equal Nationality Rights convened the virtual event “Youth Activism for Gender Equality in Nationality Laws”. Youth activists from Africa, Southeast Asia, and the Middle East discussed their involvement in advocacy efforts to advance gender-equal nationality rights and presented innovative approaches to this end. A keynote speech was delivered by the Executive Director of UN Women, Phumzile Mlambo Ngcuka. On 25 May, the League of Arab States (LAS), in partnership with UNHCR, convened the virtual “Arab Regional Conference: Towards an Action Plan on Belonging and Legal Identity”. The conference resulted in the endorsement of a regional Action Plan to address statelessness, which will be referred to the Arab Interior and Justice Ministers Councils for final adoption. The Action Plan was developed to support the implementation of the 2018 Arab Declaration on Belonging and Legal Identity, which calls on States to ensure gender equal nationality rights and to uphold every child’s right to a name and a legal identity. On 23 June, Think Tank Hub Geneva organized the virtual event “Excluded and Invisible: How to protect stateless people?”. Panelists from UNHCR, the European Network on Statelessness and elsewhere presented highlights from their contributions to the “Atlas of the Stateless”, a recent publication sponsored by the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung Foundation. 2