With respect to Action 2, Ensure that no child is born stateless, UNHCR and the Ministry of Justice of Côte d’Ivoire organized a workshop on 11 and 12 April to prepare a circular instructing judges on the application of the 1961 Convention provision regarding foundlings. This follows a 2018 landmark court decision which granted Ivorian nationality to five foundlings. In June it was confirmed that an additional 28 foundlings were granted Ivorian nationality following a sensitization campaign carried out with judges from the cities of Katiola, Daloa and Abengourou. In line with Action 6, Grant protection status to stateless migrants and facilitate their naturalization, on 21 May, the Ministry of Interior of the Czech Republic issued for the first time a document confirming that an application for determination of a persons statelessness had been lodged. This followed a judgment of the Supreme Administrative Court stating that in the absence of a statelessness determination procedure, the Ministry of Interior must apply by analogy provisions governing asylum proceedings. There continues to be significant activity in relation to Action 7, Ensure birth registration for the prevention of statelessness. On 15 May, UNHCR and the Government of Sudan signed a partnership agreement in relation to a project to promote access to birth registration for refugees, IDPs and persons at risk of statelessness. The project aims to issue birth certificates for 18,000 children and will include mobile registration campaigns for newborns, late birth registration, training and capacity building for civil registry offices, as well as support in the construction of a birth registration center in White Nile State. In line with Action 2 and Action 7, Ensure birth registration for the prevention of statelessness, on 17 April, the Parliament of Kazakhstan convened a high-level meeting to discuss the issues of birth registration, childhood statelessness and renunciation and loss of nationality. Following proposals by the Human Rights and Children’s Rights Ombudspersons, UNHCR and UNICEF, the Ministry of Justice submitted a proposal to amend the Code on Marriage and Family to ensure that all children born in Kazakhstan are registered at birth regardless of the legal status of their parents. The proposed revision is currently under consideration by the Parliament. On 29 May, the Government of Moldova adopted an “Instruction on the certification of civil status facts occurred and recorded in the localities on the left bank of Nistru and in Bender municipality” (available in Romanian and Russian) that will simplify the procedure of recognizing and registering births recorded in these non-government controlled areas, and thus help prevent statelessness. With regard to Action 3, Remove gender discrimination from nationality laws, from 23 to 25 April Togo organized a validation workshop concerning draft amendments of the country’s nationality law. The main objective of the reform is to remove gender discrimination with regard to the conferral of nationality to children and foreign spouses. The anticipated reform also foresees statelessness safeguards related to the renunciation, loss and deprivation of nationality. Since June, refugee children born in Mauritania and living in urban centres can obtain birth certificates. In February 2018, the Government of Mauritania had already begun issuing birth certificates to Malian refugee children born in Mberra camp. The Government of Mauritania is now taking concrete steps to reduce the risk of statelessness through the delivery of birth certificates to all refugee children born in Mauritania. 8