Media impact of the Campaign n September 2024, in Cameroon, the Ministry of Justice and the UN Centre for Human Rights and Democracy in Central Africa held a workshop for human rights focal points on implementing Cameroon’s 4th Universal Periodic Review recommendations. On 24 July, in Kosovo [S/RES/1244 (1999)], UNHCR and the United Nations Kosovo Team published a late birth registration web-story, highlighting the importance of civil status registration, challenges in accessing rights, and the resilience of the most vulnerable in their journey towards full access to rights. On 14 July, the League of Arab States launched the Arab Declaration on Belonging and Legal Identity to address conflict, displacement, and statelessness by improving birth registration and legal identity rights, especially for women, with opening statements from LAS, UNHCR, AIHR, UN Women and UNICEF. UNHCR welcomes the adoption of the Arab Declaration for Belonging and Legal Identity. From 23-26 September, UNHCR MENA and the International Institute of Humanitarian Law held the seventh Arabic statelessness course in Sanremo, Italy, hosting 30 participants from 10 countries to share experiences and discuss international standards. In North Macedonia, Valentin Rakip, formerly stateless person, joining the field team for outreach to the remaining persons lacking personal documents. UNHCR joins Open Day organized by the Civil Registry Office. On a media coverage by the National Broadcasting Service about an undocumented mother who gave birth at the hospital and was not allowed to leave the hospital without paying until civil rights activist Ljatifa Shikoska and the TV crew showed up and resolved the situation. Recent and planned events In October in Cameroon A strategic meeting will be held in Yaoundé to present the Universal Periodic Review recommendations to the diplomatic corps and international organizations. In October in Niger UNHCR, the Ministry of Justice, and partners will commemorate the #IBelong campaign 10th anniversary and implement activities, including updating the National Plan to combat statelessness, holding conferences at the Niger Judicial training school, and establishing statelessness working groups. Civil status registration will take place in the Madarounfa and Guidan Roumdji departments, along with mobile court hearings for 1,884 individuals at risk of statelessness. During October and November in Central African Republic A Joint mission by UNHCR, the Comité National de Lutte contre l’Apatridie, and the Commission Nationale pour les Réfugiés will distribute birth certificates to 1,202 Central African returnees from the Lobaye prefecture, whose return was supported by UNHCR. In November in Cameroon Cameroon’s Ministry of Foreign Relations, in collaboration with UNHCR, will organize a workshop in Yaounde to address commitments made at the Global Refugee Forum and the High-Level Segment on Statelessness, including the deposit of accession instruments to the two statelessness conventions and the regularization of the civil status of those without birth certificates. UNHCR > The Campaign to End Statelessness | July – September 2024 Update 10