Documentation clinic to provide birth certificates and identification documents. © Pablo Cambranes / HRCB Action 8: Issue nationality documentation to those with entitlement to it From July to September, in Burkina Faso, UNHCR and the General Directorate for the modernization of civil status worked together to issue civil documentation to internally displaced persons. Across eight regions, a total of 2,675 civil documents were distributed. These efforts included the transcription of 1,810 declaratory judgments into the civil registry for birth certificates, the issuance of 388 national identity cards by the National Identification Office, and the distribution of 477 nationality certificates by judicial authorities. From July to September, in Mozambique, UNHCR partnered with the Catholic University of Mozambique, the Provincial services of justice and labour, and the Provincial services of civil identification to issue birth certificates and identity documents to 1,613 individuals, including 976 children, in Nampula. From 5 July to 20 September, in Niger, Committee for emergency aid and development (CIAUDCanada) identified and referred 3,090 cases of individuals at risk of statelessness to civil registry services. In total, 6,427 individuals—refugees, IDPs, returnees, and host populations—were identified. 2,779 individuals accessed birth certificates, and 289 timely birth certificates, along with marriage and death certificates, were distributed. In collaboration with IRC-Rescue, mobile court hearings resolved 5,196 overdue birth certificates in several communes. 893 children without birth certificates were identified for regularization in Niamey. On 9 August, a joint mission supported mobile court hearings to issue national identity cards to 1,200 IDPs in Guidan Sori. Additionally, 30 awarenessraising sessions on statelessness prevention reached 1,633 individuals in Maradi. On 24 September, in Thailand, UNHCR, the Ministry of Interior, and the Ministry of Justice organized the distribution of national ID cards in Kang Krachan District, Petchaburi Province, for 47 Karen ethnic stateless individuals from Pong Luek and Bang Kloi villages who were granted Thai nationality. Action 9: Accede to the UN Statelessness Conventions On 24 July, in Cameroon, the Head of State signed Decree No.2024/333, finalizing the domestic process for the country’s accession to the UN 1954 Convention relating to the status of stateless persons and the 1961 Convention on the reduction of statelessness. The deposit of the instruments of accession is still pending. UNHCR > The Campaign to End Statelessness | July – September 2024 Update 4