From 9 to 11 September, the XVI Encounter of the Latin American and Caribbean Council of Civil Registry, Identity and Vital Statistics (CLARCIEV) was held in Santiago, Chile. This annual meeting brings together civil registry institutions to exchange good practices in the registration and identification of people. The Executive Committee of CLARCIEV adopted a declaration recognizing statelessness as a violation of the right to a nationality, while also agreeing to develop projects to ensure birth registration, particularly in the context of mixed flows, and develop regional guidelines to facilitate late birth registration procedures. From 12 to 15 September, UNHCR, in coordination with the Participants at the academic roundtable on statelessness organized by UNHCR and the Peter McMullin Centre on Statelessness in Bangkok. © UNHCR Universal Civil Identity Program in the Americas (PUICA) of the Organization of American States (OAS) and the Chilean Civil On 26 September, UNHCR and LexisNexis, a Registry and Identification Service, organized a global content provider for legal professionals, Regional Workshop on Registration, Statelessness co-hosted a Rule of Law roundtable discussion and Refugee Status Determination in the on statelessness in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The framework of the CLARCIEV meeting. The training event was part of LexisNexis’ awareness campaign targeted civil registry offices and the National on statelessness titled “Now/Here I Belong”. The Commission for Refugees of Latin America and roundtable participants, which included lawyers the Caribbean in an effort to strengthen national and staff from NGOs, discussed challenges, registration services and identity management as a opportunities and good practices in conducting means to address and prevent statelessness. litigation on statelessness. On 18 and 19 September, UNHCR held an interinstitutional workshop on statelessness identification and protection with the Government of Costa Rica. 25 Chilean Government officials from different ministries discussed solutions to ensure that stateless persons have access to public programs and are taken into account in the development of public policies. Participants also identified ways to strengthen coordination with respect to the identification and referral of cases among the institutions. On 25 and 26 September, UNHCR and the Peter McMullin Centre on Statelessness co-sponsored an academic roundtable to assess the state of academic involvement in statelessness-related research and education in Southeast Asia. The event was hosted by the Social Research Institute of Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok and attended by 19 academics whose work focuses on statelessness. 7