Across the globe, many training sessions were organized for government and civil society partners to improve their awareness and technical knowledge on matters relating to nationality and statelessness. In 18 August, in Kazakhstan, UNHCR, the NGO Bureau for Human Rights and the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection, conducted an online training on the topic of identification and documentation of stateless persons for 350 social workers in Kazakhstan. From 26 to 30 July, the third edition of the Nationality and Statelessness Course for Frenchspeaking practitioners was held. Opened by UNHCR’s Assistant High Commissioner for Protection, Ms. Gillian Triggs, this virtual training was attended by 65 people from 23 different countries in Africa and beyond. It included members of the newly established statelessness determination bodies in Côte d’Ivoire, civil registration officers and participants from UN agencies, civil society organizations and human rights institutions. The course was delivered by 13 trainers from universities in Western Africa and the United States. On 15 and 16 June, in Yemen, UNHCR and the Migrant and Refugee Study Centre organized a training for 35 senior field officials of the Civil Status and Civil Registry Authority on the importance of universal birth registration for the prevention of statelessness. From July to September, in Jordan, UNCHR delivered four training sessions to employees of the Civil Status Department which focused on the importance of registration and documentation as a tool to prevent statelessness. At the end of August, in Uganda, UNHCR facilitated two online statelessness trainings for officials from the Ministry of Internal Affairs aimed at raising awareness of statelessness and solutions to address the problem, with a particular focus on the pledges delivered by the Government at the 2019 High-Level Segment on Statelessness. On 28 September, in Morocco, UNHCR and the Moroccan Human Rights Organization convened an event to sensitize civil status officers on the importance of birth registration for the prevention of statelessness. Implementation of the Global Action Plan In line with Action 1, Resolve existing major situations of statelessness, on 2 September, the Kenyan national taskforce on statelessness organized a ceremony during which 52 stateless persons of Asian descent were granted citizenship certificates. During the ceremony, Kenya’s Director-General of Immigration reiterated the Government’s commitment to resolve statelessness. There were also positive developments with regards to the stateless persons of Pemba descent. On 10 August, the departmental Committee on Administration and National Security of Kenya issued a report recommending the Government to initiate a process to recognize this group as citizens. The report follows a petition submitted to the National Assembly in September 2020 which called on the government to resolve the statelessness situation of this group. Brothers Dhruv and Parv Kavia receive their Kenyan citizenship certificates during a ceremony organized by the Government of Kenya to confirm the Kenyan nationality of stateless individuals of Asian descent. © Paresh Kavia 5