JANUARY – JUNE 2025 and Nord-Est Departments, reaching remote and violence-affected areas. Working with partners, Citoyenne pour les Droits de l’Homme (ICDH) and Organisation des Citoyens pour une Nouvelle Haïti (OCNH) efforts included legal aid, civil registry rehabilitation, and awareness-raising on the right to legal identity. These initiatives are strengthening Haiti’s civil documentation system and reducing statelessness risks. UNHCR works in Haiti with local partners, including NGOs and community groups to raise awareness on gender-based violence and HIV. Also, providing legal assistance at the borders. ©UNHCR/Juan Pablo Terminello In Afghanistan, UNHCR and its partners identified and registered 2,476 individuals needing legal aid and cash assistance to facilitate the acquisition of civil documentation, primarily identity cards and birth certificates. This contributes to the prevention of statelessness, particularly among returnees who have returned with children born abroad who lack any form of civil documentation. In Iran, in January, the Civil registration organization and the Ministry of health official launched a digital birth registration system, introducing two platforms (SAHIM and HODA) for e-registration and national ID verification. While the system improves access and efficiency for Iranian citizens, its applicability to foreign nationals and undocumented persons remains unclear. From January to June, UNHCR and partners advanced the Japan-funded birth registration initiative in the Bangsamoro Region and Sulu in the Philippines. In its second phase, the project UNHCR / DIP Statelessness Section engaged 14 municipalities, trained 500 partners, and helped 4,200 people access birth registration. Activities included mobile registration, and youth and religious leader-led advocacy, aligning with the Philippines’ National Action Plan to end statelessness. The “My Name” campaign in Cameroon, launched following the 2024 National Forum of Mayors and supported by the National civil status registration office (BUNEC), the Ministry of Decentralization and Local Development and UNICEF, aimed to boost birth registration through digital solutions, community engagement, and strengthened civil status systems. Concluding in June, the campaign resulted in 367 of 374 communes adopting digital registration, improving children’s access to legal identity. It also contributed to the adoption of the new Law on Civil Status Registration. Action 8. Issue nationality documentation to those with entitlement to it to prevent statelessness In early 2025, the Supreme Court of Chile reviewed five cases of individuals born in Chile and registered as HET (hijo de extranjero transeúnte - child of a foreigner in transit) due to their parents’ migrator status; three were recognized as Chilean nationals, while two remain pending. The project also identified over 30 cases for legal representation involving children at risk of statelessness, including 10 HET cases in Chile and 20 children born in Colombia to Venezuelan parents. In June, Ukraine’s Ombudsman and Council of Europe presented results of a pilot project aiming to develop legal mechanisms to simplify access to documentation for persons from the Roma national minority. UNHCR has supported this project, and with the help of its partner, the National Education Expertise and Knowledge Advancement Foundation (NEEKA), helped 159 people confirm nationality and get passports, and 83 persons to obtain birth certificates. Recommendations were made to the relevant authorities to further improve access to documentation. 4