IBelong Campaign Milestones Kyrgyzstan Becomes First Country to End Statelessness Nansen Refugee Award Presented to Ashurov Azizbek Ashurov – a Kyrgyz human-rights lawyer – receives the Nansen Refugee Award as a “symbol of hope” for millions without citizenship around the world. In a historic first, Kyrgyzstan resolved all known cases of statelessness in its territory, issuing critical documentation to more than 13,700 people. High-Level Segment on Statelessness 2019 Global Refugee Forum 2019 The first Global Refugee Forum (GRF) saw the announcement of 360 pledges and contributions relating to the prevention and reduction of statelessness, and protecting stateless persons, including 252 pledges by States. The Forum also enabled the active participation of stateless advocates and individuals with lived experience. To mark the mid-point of the #IBelong Campaign, UNHCR convened an intergovernmental meeting that gave United Nations Member States and other stakeholders the opportunity to highlight key achievements and deliver concrete pledges to address statelessness. Our Common Agenda Highlights Statelessness At its seventy sixth session of the General Assembly, the United Nations adopted the resolution on Our Common Agenda, including measures to prove legal identity and end statelessness. 2021 Development of the International Recommendations on Statelessness Statistics This set of recommendations guides how to include stateless persons in national censuses and other statistical exercises, helping collect more complete data to understand the scope of statelessness and challenges of stateless populations, and to inform appropriate responses. Global Refugee Forum 2023 2023 Adoption of the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and People’s Rights Arab Declaration for Belonging and Identity The African Union Assembly of States adopted a Protocol related to nationality rights and the eradication of statelessness in Africa. Launch of the Global Alliance to End Statelessness The second GRF saw 135 new pledges on statelessness, as well as reports on progress or full achievement on 48 percent of pledges submitted at the 2019 GRF. Some of these new pledges included initiatives by 11 United Nations country teams to address statelessness. 2024 This declaration by the League of Arab States established a framework by which States in the region can address statelessness – largely arising from conflict and displacement – through mechanisms including better access to birth registration, safeguards against childhood statelessness and strengthened gender equality in legal identity legislation. As a collaborative multistakeholder platform led by UNHCR, the vision of The Global Alliance to End Statelessness is to create “a world free from statelessness where everyone enjoys the right to a nationality without discrimination.” The initiative is part of the UN Secretary General’s ‘Our Common Agenda’ and is aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals. #IBELONG 7