The Campaign to End Statelessness January – March 2021 Update #IBelong Join us in our Campaign to End Statelessness Mobilizing governments and civil society On 25 February, the Inter-Parliamentary Union, UNHCR, and the International Association of Professionals in Humanitarian Assistance and Protection organized a webinar on ‘Parliamentary Action to End Statelessness by 2024’. It focused on the implementation of pledges from the 2019 HighLevel Segment on Statelessness (2019 HLS) and on how parliamentarians can accelerate efforts to end statelessness by 2024. Recommendations on Statelessness Statistics (IROSS) under the auspices of EGRIS. The event galvanized technical and political support for IROSS, with recommendations expected to be submitted to the UN Statistical Commission for endorsement in 2023. In March, UNHCR published a series of six quick guides on researching statelessness intended to serve as practical tools to improve knowledge, skills and capacity to collect reliable data on statelessness and to improve data collection output. On 25 February, UNHCR, UNFPA and the Expert Group on Refugee and Internally Displaced Persons Statistics (EGRIS) organized a side event ‘Leaving no one behind: Improving Statistics on Statelessness’ on the margins of the UN Statistical Commission. It brought together a diverse range of experts to highlight to the statistical community the current scarcity and weaknesses of official statistics needed to estimate the size and characteristics of stateless populations globally. Emphasis was put on the ongoing development of new International On the occasion of International Women’s Day (IWD), on 8 March, UNHCR published the 2021 update of the Background Note on Gender Equality, Nationality Laws and Statelessness. On 10 March, ID4Africa commemorated IWD with a Livecast ‘Gender Matters in Identity Systems’. It focused on challenges faced by women and girls in accessing civil registration services. 1