persons an opportunity to share their personal stories. On 5 December, a breakfast seminar was organized in Helsinki in partnership with the Finnish Refugee Advice Centre. On 10 December, UNHCR hosted a breakfast seminar in Stockholm. One of the speakers at the event was Lynn al-Khatib, a student and activist from Syria with Palestinian heritage who has been living in a situation of limbo since she came to Sweden four years ago. The new NGO “Swedish Organization Against Statelessness” (Svenska organisationen mot statslöshet) was introduced during the event. representatives. In light of the OSCE-UNHCR project on statelessness, which kicked off in 2017 with the launch of the UNHCR-OSCE Handbook on Statelessness in the OSCE Area, participants shared practical examples of how childhood statelessness can be prevented in the OSCE area. On 30 and 31 October, the Ministry of Interior of Montenegro and UNHCR organized a workshop on statelessness determination. The workshop was organized upon the request of the Ministry following the 2018 adoption of a statelessness determination procedure and its recent pledge submitted at the High-Level Segment on Statelessness to strengthen the capacities of authorities to implement the procedure. The workshop gathered thirty officials from the Ministry of Interior and branch offices that will be running the procedure. During the two-day workshop, participants exchanged challenges and practices established so far and were briefed on international standards in the area of statelessness. On 23 October, the 3rd Practical OSCE-UNHCR Seminar on Sharing Good Practices on Birth Registration and Childhood Statelessness was convened in Vienna. The seminar was attended by the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities, the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, UNHCR, the EU Fundamental Rights Agency, the European Network on Statelessness, and a range of State and Roma civil society Participants at the workshop on statelessness determination in Montenegro, organized by the Ministry of Interior of Montenegro and UNHCR. © UNHCR 5