On 30 and 31 May, UNHCR, with the support of the Royal Thai Government, convened a regional preparatory meeting in Bangkok. The meeting gathered 113 participants from 16 States in the Asia Pacific region, including government officials and representatives of UN agencies, national human rights commissions, NGOs, academia and formerly stateless persons. Participants took stock of achievements and remaining challenges, discussed good practices and shared indicative pledges for the High-Level Segment on Statelessness. From 26 to 28 June, the World Conference on Statelessness was held in The Hague, organized by the Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion and partners. The conference gathered over 250 activists, academics, NGOs, UN officials and artists to explore and discuss statelessness-related challenges, opportunities, research, policy and advocacy. High-level panel debates were convened on a number of topics including strengthening a unified human rights voice on the Rohingya crisis; opportunities presented by the Sustainable Development Agenda; the use and mis-use of deprivation of nationality; realizing the right of every child to a nationality; and building a global statelessness movement. On 4 July, UNHCR organized a regional preparatory meeting for the Middle East and North Africa region in Casablanca, hosted by Morocco. The meeting encouraged a coordinated regional approach and dialogue on best practices relevant to the ten actions of the Global Action Plan to End Statelessness. Representatives at the regional preparatory meeting for the Asia Pacific region in Bangkok. © UNHCR 3