On 3 July, the UNHCR-UNICEF Coalition on Every Child’s Right to a Nationality held national consultations on birth registration and the prevention of childhood statelessness in Kyrgyzstan. During the event, State entities and the Parliament were encouraged to accelerate civil registration legislative reform and ensure that every child is registered at birth irrespective of the parents’ legal status. the meeting, UNHCR sought support from the Ambassadors in advancing the regional agenda to end statelessness, including through concrete pledges to be made at the High-Level Segment on Statelessness. On 9 and 10 May, the first workshop on statelessness determination procedures (SDPs) in Africa was held in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. The event was attended by representatives from Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Mali, Burkina Faso and Côte d’Ivoire. Participants agreed on country-specific roadmaps towards the establishment of SDPs that will help identify and protect stateless persons in line with obligations set out in the 1954 Convention on the Status of Stateless Persons. On 29 and 30 April, UNHCR and the National Court Administration under the Ministry of Justice of Lithuania organized a statelessness seminar in Vilnius. Approximately 50 judges and assistant judges representing the Supreme Administrative Court of Lithuania, regional administrative courts and district courts, as well as a number of foreign judges, attended the event. The discussions focused on international legal standards relating to statelessness, as well as the reduction and prevention of statelessness. During its plenary session from 6 to 17 May, the Pan-African Parliament adopted a resolution on the eradication of statelessness in Africa. The resolution calls on States to reform nationality laws to ensure that every child born or found on a State’s territory will acquire the nationality of that State if the child would otherwise be stateless; to eliminate all forms of discrimination in nationality laws; to improve access to birth registration; and to adopt legislation that facilitates the recognition and documentation of nationality through simplified naturalization procedures. The Pan-African Parliament also urged States to coordinate actions to develop comprehensive regional strategies to address statelessness. From 22 to 24 May, in Zagreb, UNHCR jointly with the Ministry of Interior of Croatia and the Croatian Red Cross convened the fifth Annual Conference on International Protection and Statelessness. The conference was attended by government officials, the Ombudsman’s office and civil society. During the event, the State Secretary of the Ministry of Interior, Mr. Žarko Katić, reaffirmed the Government’s strong commitment to support UNHCR’s #IBelong Campaign and the Global Action Plan to End Statelessness. From 21 to 24 May, a national task force in Eswatini developed a National Action Plan to end statelessness, under the leadership of the Ministry of Interior and with UNHCR’s support. The plan foresees the removal of gender discriminatory provisions and granting nationality to children born on the territory who would otherwise be stateless. The action plan was submitted to the Government for adoption. On 11 and 12 June, the European Committee on Legal Co-operation of the Council of Europe held an ad-hoc meeting on statelessness in Strasbourg to discuss statelessness determination procedures in select Council of Europe Member States and reflect on possible activities to be carried out to prevent childhood statelessness. UNHCR presented the Global Action Plan to End Statelessness and the #IBelong Campaign, and suggested, inter alia, that the Council of Europe consider adopting its own regional action plan similar to the plans and declarations in other regions of the world. Similarly, in May, a multifunctional task force established by the Ministry of Interior of Namibia developed a National Action Plan to end statelessness in the country. Based on the action plan, consultations on accession to the UN conventions on statelessness have been initiated. On 15 and 16 April, UNHCR and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) organized the bi-annual retreat of UNHCR and ECOWAS Ambassadors in Uyo, Nigeria. During 6