Media impact of the Campaign
On 4 November, UNHCR launched a large-scale
information and advocacy campaign in Tajikistan
on the consequences of statelessness and the
importance of birth registration. The campaign
included a series of radio programs aired by two
radio stations, video clips broadcast through national
TV channels and human-interest stories published
in mass media and on social media platforms. A TV
program on statelessness and birth registration was
also broadcast through a national TV station with the
participation of key government counterparts. The
campaign was concluded on 16 December with a
program on radio Asia Plus that included the UNHCR
Representative of Tajikistan.
UNHCR’s Regional Representation for EU Affairs
produced a short animated video to support EUrelated advocacy and communications work on
ending statelessness. The video calls upon EU
Member States to act in order to end statelessness
in their own countries while also supporting other
countries to do so.
In Madagascar, the singer Jaojoby collaborated
with the NGO Focus to launch a national media
campaign to raise awareness on statelessness
among the general public. Jaojoby is an artist and
music composer known as the King of Salegy, which
is the Malagasy traditional dance form from the north
of the island.
In Almaty, Kazakhstan, UNHCR and the NGO
Kazakhstan International Bureau for Human Rights
and the Rule of Law held a press briefing with
journalists on 27 November to mark the mid-point of
the #IBelong Campaign. The event raised awareness
of statelessness-related issues and encouraged the
Government, civil society and other stakeholders
in Kazakhstan to join efforts to prevent and reduce
statelessness. During the press conference, a former
stateless person shared her experience in terms
of the challenges she faced as an undocumented
person and how acquisition of citizenship
transformed her life.
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