One of the photos of the photo exhibition ‘Passport Photo’ by Ukrainian photographer Oleksandr Chekmenev. This particular photo portrays a Roma woman, Vironika Brynzachka, currently assisted by UNHCR and NGO NEEKA in obtaining civil documents. © UNHCR/O.Chekmenev On 5 November, UNHCR and the Ukrainian photographer Oleksandr Chekmenev launched the photo exhibition “Passport Photo” at the Kyiv History Museum. The exhibition features 29 photos and stories of stateless and undocumented people and sheds light on the needs and challenges of the up to 35,000 people in Ukraine who are stateless or at risk of statelessness. The exhibition was also shown at the Ukrainian Parliament during Human Rights Week from 2 to 6 December. In that same week, Parliament adopted a law to establish a statelessness determination procedure in the first reading. The rap-singer Alina Pash participated in the opening of the exhibition and has become the voice of this year’s #IBelong Campaign in Ukraine. Mobilizing governments and civil society On 3 December, the 358 pledges made by States, civil society and international and regional organizations on the occasion of the High-Level Segment on Statelessness were made public. The pledges can be accessed via UNHCR’s #IBelong website. The pledges will feature in an outcome document which will be published in the first quarter of 2020. From 9 to 11 December, UNHCR and UNFPA coconvened a global expert meeting on improving official statistics on statelessness in Bangkok, Thailand. The meeting gathered technical experts from 14 countries, UNECA, UNESCAP and UNESCWA, to enhance the capacity of national statistical offices and to lay the ground for the development of a handbook with recommendations on the production of statistics on statelessness. Work on this initiative will continue in 2020. 2