Adriana Mejía Hernández (far right), Vice-Minister of Multilateral Affairs of Colombia, is recognised by UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi, UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed, and UN Office of Legal Affairs representative Arancha Hinojal, for Colombia’s accession to the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons. © UNHCR/Jean Marc Ferré Interview with the High Commissioner the #IBelong Campaign in 2024. Eswatini and Liberia have committed to removing gender discrimination from their nationality laws so that mothers can confer their nationality to their children on the same basis as fathers. Other States - Central African Republic, Eswatini and Nigeria - made pledges relating to the removal of spousal-related gender discrimination. Over 20 States have pledged to establish dedicated statelessness determination procedures, which will allow stateless people to have a formal legal status and enjoy the rights to which they are entitled until they acquire a nationality. And more than 30 States having committed to collect better qualitative and quantitative data on stateless persons within the next 5 years – measures which will dramatically improve the information we have on stateless people. More than 100 more pledges were made by 11 international and regional organizations and 22 civil society organizations. UNHCR convened a High-Level Segment on Statelessness to mark the mid-point of the #IBelong Campaign and to give renewed impetus to the Campaign – how do you evaluate the results of the event? I’m very pleased and impressed by the total number of pledges – over 350 confirmed in writing, all of which will feed into the Global Forum on Refugees. It’s particularly notable that over 65 States made pledges to address statelessness, showing the widespread strong political will and commitment to the goal of the #IBelong Campaign to eradicate statelessness. Some of the pledges, such as those by Kenya, Rwanda, Sierra Leone and Turkmenistan are very significant, as each of these States committed to completely resolving all cases of statelessness on their territories, in almost all cases before the end of Apart from these important commitments, the High-Level Segment also gave an important opportunity to States to talk about some of the successes they have already secured in addressing 3