The Minister of Justice of Japan, Ms. Yoko Kamikawa, announces the findings of a study on stateless children born in Japan and measures to be taken to resolve their plight. © The Asahi Shimbun On 20 July, the Ministry of Justice of Japan announced the findings of research carried out by the Immigration Services Agency (ISA) regarding the legal status and eligibility to Japanese nationality of a group of 300 children who were born and registered as stateless in Japan. To resolve the nationality status of these children, the Ministry has committed to improve relevant data compilation, enhance legal counselling, and improve coordination with concerned agencies. On 28 July, Rwanda published a new nationality law which provides for facilitated naturalization for stateless persons and fulfils one of Rwanda’s pledges at UNHCR’s 2019 High-Level Segment on Statelessness. In Azerbaijan, UNHCR provided legal support to 13 persons to establish statelessness before the court. Their cases were subsequently referred to the Citizenship Commission, and thus far five have been granted nationality. In line with Action 6, Grant protection status to stateless migrants and facilitate their naturalization, on 4 August, Colombia enacted Law 2136 creating a Comprehensive Immigration policy which includes provisions on the protection of stateless persons and establishes a statelessness determination procedure. The law guarantees a series of rights for those granted statelessness status, including the right to travel documents and to facilitated naturalization. Applicants will have the right to stay in the country while their application is under consideration. The adoption of the law is in line with a pledge submitted by the Government of Colombia at the 2019 Global Refugee Forum. In line with Actions 6 and Action 10, Improve quantitative and qualitative data on stateless populations, the Ministry of Justice and Public Security (MJPS) of Brazil launched SisApatridia, an online platform dedicated to the submission and processing of applications for statelessness determination. This system is expected to improve data on statelessness as it centralizes all new applications and consolidates past applications. It will also accelerate the processing of statelessness claims, improve protection prospects for stateless people and facilitate their naturalization. With regard to Action 7, Ensure birth registration for the prevention of statelessness, from 17 – 19 August in Nigeria, UNHCR, the National Population Commission and the National Commission for Refugees, Migrants and Internally Displaced Persons conducted a birth registration exercise for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in three settlements in Abuja. A total of 1,516 IDP children were registered and issued with birth certificates during the three- In Kuwait, in a meeting on 13 September, the Parliamentarian Committee for persons with undetermined nationality (Bidoon) approved three proposals to further the protection of the Bidoon. The proposals entail specific measures for Bidoon working in education, healthcare and the military to benefit from equal pay and related benefits, among other provisions. 7