In the Philippines, UNHCR, the Joint IDP Profiling Service (JIPS) and local partners conducted a study to map the situation of persons at risk of statelessness, the Sama Bajau, and internally displaced persons in Tawi-Tawi province. The resulting reports include information about living conditions, protection risks and vulnerabilities, and serve as a baseline for duty-bearers to craft policies and interventions. The key findings and recommendations were presented to relevant stakeholders in Tawi-Tawi Province and in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao. On 7 September, the report was officially handed over to the Ministry of Social Services and Development. The Ministry committed to follow up on the recommendations of the report. On 30 August, the Royal Thai Government reported its latest statistics of the registered stateless population, which now provides a more comprehensive picture of the situation in the country. While in the end of 2020 the registered stateless population amounted to 480,549, this increased to 553,969 in August this year. The additional 74,254 stateless people were able to register as stateless due to amendments to the civil registration laws which were adopted in 2008 and 2019. Registration allows them to obtain an ID card for non-Thais and to improve their legal status in Thailand. Media Impact of the Campaign The 60th anniversary of the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness received coverage around the globe. Press releases issued in Spain, Armenia and North Macedonia were picked up by various news outlets, including by Euronews, Makpress, Opserver, Vecher, A1on.mk and MIA. In Southern Africa, UNHCR used the occasion to advocate for accession to the 1961 Convention. An addendum on statelessness in Southern Africa was shared globally and an opinion piece on the situation in the region featuring real life stories of stateless persons was published in the Mail &Guardian. On 18 August, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Costa Rica, with the support of UNHCR, launched the campaign “You are not invisible” (“No Sos Invisible”) to help eradicate statelessness in the country. The campaign contains visual materials to inform the public about the existence of the statelessness determination procedure as well as video testimonies of stateless persons (videos available here and here). It also promotes a new informative section on statelessness in the MFA’s website. On 19 June, in North Macedonia, the Platform of Investigative Journalism and Analysis posted a video depicting a stateless person, explaining how her lack of a nationality inhibits access to other rights. The NGO Lawyers for Human Rights was interviewed by the Saturday Star and the Sunday Times on access to COVID-19 vaccines for undocumented migrants in South Africa, highlighting the Government’s duty to extend vaccines to non-citizens, both documented and undocumented. On 21 August, in Spain, the news medium Newtral published two articles on statelessness following interviews with UNHCR. One article discussed the statelessness determination procedure in Spain, with a focus on persons of Saharawi origin, and the other article discussed statelessness as a global issue, capturing UNHCR statistics. 9