On 23 May, building on media coverage of highprofile stateless persons and ahead of the Asia Pacific regional preparatory meeting for the High-Level Segment on Statelessness, UNHCR organized a media luncheon with key national media agencies in Thailand. UNHCR provided updates on the statelessness situation in Thailand, shared information on what the Thai Government and UNHCR are doing to help stateless people and exchanged ideas on what more can be done as part of the collective effort to address statelessness. The World Conference on Statelessness and Inclusion that was held in The Hague from 26 to 28 June generated significant media coverage on the conference itself as well as on statelessness in general. Reuters published a number of articles, including on developments in Iran to scrap the ban on women passing nationality to children, an interview with Member of the UN Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar, Radhika Coomaraswamy, and Kyrgyzstan’s efforts to end statelessness in its territory. Other recent Reuter’s articles on statelessness can be found here. Upcoming events On 18 July in New York, United States of America On 3 and 4 September in Bangkok, Thailand UNHCR and the Inter-Parliamentary Union will hold a side-event on the critical role of law reform in ending statelessness on the margins of the 2019 HighLevel Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF). The HLPF is the UN’s central platform for follow-up and review of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Sustainable Development Goals and provides for the full and effective participation of all Members States of the UN and States which are members of specialized agencies. The event is open to the public and will be held at the UN Church Center from 2:30 to 4:30pm. UNHCR and the Peter McMullin Centre on Statelessness will convene a roundtable meeting to involve universities and academics from South-East Asia in supporting the #IBelong Campaign to End Statelessness by 2024. On 5 and 6 September in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan UNHCR, in partnership with UNICEF and the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, will hold the 2nd Regional Conference on the Right to Legal Identity and Prevention of Statelessness. Participants at the ministerial level from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan are expected to review progress in terms of ensuring universal birth registration and preventing childhood statelessness since the first regional conference was held last year. From 29 July to 2 August in Tilburg, The Netherlands The Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion will convene its annual statelessness summer course in Tilburg, The Netherlands. The course is designed for professionals working on citizenship and statelessness issues and is global in scope, drawing participants from all regions of the world. It provides participants with new knowledge, tools and skills to address statelessness and realize the right to nationality. The curriculum is taught by lecturers from a variety of backgrounds. 11