Endnotes 1 See for example: European Network on Statelessness, Situation assessment of statelessness, health, and COVID-19 in Europe, April 2021; Right to Protection, Access of Stateless Persons to Medical Care during COVID-19 and Assessment of the Economic and Social Impact of the Lockdown Measures, May 2020. 2 UNHCR, The Impact of COVID-19 on Stateless Populations: Policy Recommendations and Good Practices, May 2020. 3 UNHCR also issued a joint statement with OHCHR, IOM and the WHO calling attention to the particular vulnerability of stateless persons. 4 Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford, Our World in Data [accessed on 26 May]. 5 The COVAX Facility is an initiative of the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI), Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance and the World Health Organization and aims at ensuring equal access to vaccines for all participating countries, regardless of income levels. 6 Gavi, The Vaccine Alliance, COVAX Vaccine Roll-Out [accessed on 1 June]. 7 Inter Agency Standing Committee, Frequently Asked Questions: The COVAX Humanitarian Buffer [accessed on 21 April]. 8 GAVI, ‘The COVAX Humanitarian Buffer Explained’, 30 March 2021. 9 UNHCR, “This Is Our Home” Stateless Minorities and Their Search for Citizenship, November 2017. 10 UNHCR, “UNHCR calls for equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines for refugees”, 7 April 2021. 11 Most notably, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, Article 12(1) establishes that ‘The States Parties to the present Covenant recognize the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health’, and that (2) ‘The steps to be taken by the States Parties to the present Covenant to achieve the full realization of this right shall include those necessary for: (c) The Prevention, treatment and control of epidemic, endemic, occupational and other diseases. Furthermore, Article 25(i) of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights establishes that ‘‘Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control’. 12 According to the World Bank Group’s 2018 #ID4D Global Dataset, an estimated one billion people around the globe face challenges in proving who they are. 13 UNHCR, “UNHCR commends Central Asia for providing asylum seekers, refugees, and stateless persons with access to COVID vaccination”, 14 May 2021 14 UNHCR, The Impact of COVID-19 on Stateless Populations: Policy Recommendations and Good Practices, May 2020. 11 THE IMPACT OF COVID-19 ON STATELESS POPULATIONS