The Campaign to End Statelessness October – December 2020 Update #IBelong Join us in our Campaign to End Statelessness Mobilizing Governments and Civil Society On 10 November, the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation hosted a virtual event to launch the Atlas of the Stateless, a report which brings together a series of new short essays on statelessness covering different regions and themes. The launch event can be watched here. On 29 December, the UN Human Rights Committee found that the Netherlands violated a child’s rights by registering him as “nationality unknown”, as this left him unable under Dutch law to be recognized as stateless and given protection as a stateless child. It is the Committee’s first decision on the right of a child to acquire a nationality. “States have the responsibility to ensure that stateless children under their jurisdiction who have no possibility to acquire any other nationality are not left without legal protection,” said committee member Shuichi Furuya. On 10 December, Human Rights Day, the Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion (ISI) officially launched the ISI Database on Statelessness and Human Rights. The database offers easy access to recommendations relating to statelessness and the right to a nationality issued to States by the UN human rights system. The new database allows the user to compare and analyze the information it contains using different filters such as country, UN body and theme. The event launching the database can be watched here. On 7 November, the Consolidated Action Plan of the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR) on the Eradication of Statelessness (2017-2024) was validated during a regional interministerial committee meeting. The action plan adds a new strategic objective on access to proof of legal identity for persons at risk of statelessness, including refugees in protracted circumstances. This step is in line with a pledge made by the ICGLR at the 2019 High-Level Segment on Statelessness. 1