Implementation of the Global Action Plan In line with Action 1, Resolve existing major situations of statelessness, and Action 8, Issue nationality documentation to those with entitlement to it, UNHCR continues to support local NGO DHRRA (Development of Human Resources in Rural Areas) Malaysia to assist stateless persons to apply for citizenship and documentation. As of 1 September, this has resulted in 12,396 applications being submitted to the National Registration Department and 3,534 persons acquiring Malaysian nationality. Also in line with Action 2, UNHCR and the Ministry of Justice of Côte d’Ivoire continued to support activities to provide nationality certificates to stateless foundlings. Since the beginning of the year, judicial decisions in eight jurisdictions across the country have led to over 100 foundlings obtaining Ivorian nationality. This shift in legal thinking can be attributed to a series of trainings of magistrates that were conducted in May and in July this year to sensitize judges on the application of the UN statelessness conventions including with respect to the provision on foundlings. With regard to Action 2, Ensure that no child is born stateless, on 5 August the President of Colombia announced the adoption of a temporary measure to grant Colombian nationality by birth to children born in the territory to Venezuelan parents. The measure is expected to benefit over 20,000 newborns in Colombia. With respect to Action 6, Grant protection status to stateless migrants and facilitate their naturalization, on 17 July, the Argentine Parliament adopted a law on the identification and protection of stateless persons that establishes a Statelessness Determination Procedure (SDP) and a protection framework for stateless persons. The law also provides for facilitated naturalization of stateless persons. On 17 July, The Argentine Parliament adopted a law on the identification and protection of stateless persons. © UNHCR 9