MAPPING OF THE POPULATION AT RISK OF STATELESSNESS IN ALBANIA - Action 1: Resolve existing major situations of statelessness. - Action 2: Ensure that no child is born stateless. - Action 3: Remove gender discrimination from nationality laws. - Action 4: Prevent denial, loss or deprivation of nationality on discriminatory grounds. - Action 5: Prevent statelessness in cases of State succession. - Action 6: Grant protection status to stateless migrants and facilitate their naturalization. - Action 7: Ensure birth registration for the prevention of statelessness. - Action 8: Issue nationality documentation to those with entitlement to it. - Action 9: Accede to the UN Statelessness Conventions. - Action 10: Improve quantitative and qualitative data on stateless populations. Together with the Global Action Plan, UNHCR launched the IBelong Campaign in 2014. On 4 November 2014, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Antonio Guterres, the UNHCR Special Envoy Angelina Jolie and more than 30 celebrities and world opinion leaders published an Open Letter to end stateless. The Open Letter is available online, and the campaign aims at increasing awareness on the consequences of statelessness and promoting global commitment to put an end to it. Through the Global Action Plan, UNHCR and its partners commit to support States to achieve this goal through several actions, including i) enhancing identification and data collection regarding population at risk of statelessness, ii) development of policy, including National Action Plans to reduce and prevent statelessness iii) advocate and provide technical advice to draft and reform primary and secondary legislation iv) advocate and provide technical advice to remove procedural obstacles for confirmation of nationality v) support Governments to improve birth registration procedures and practices vi) provision of free legal aid services vii) support the Governments with issuance of documentation viii) support with the deployment of mobile teams to ensure that all stateless persons or persons at risk of statelessness have access to procedures viii) promote exchange of good practices and lessons learnt ix) organize awareness raising campaigns about statelessness x) advocate for non-discriminatory policies, procedures and practices xi) support the government to put in place stateless determination procedures and ensure that stateless persons are able to access and enjoy rights. In order to end statelessness among these groups and other at-risk persons in South Eastern Europe, UNHCR is working with local authorities and institutions to reduce the numbers of stateless persons and/or persons at risk of statelessness by: Identifying/profiling and protecting stateless persons, including those with a migratory back- - ground; - Advocating for accession to both UN Statelessness Conventions - Preventing statelessness at birth; and - Collaborating with civil society organizations (free legal aid providers in particular), European UNHCR - TLAS / May 2018 29