Members of Parliament in Japan submitted the Bill for the Protection of Refugees and Other Persons to Parliament. © Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan stateless persons to obtain temporary identity cards (IDs). The IDs will be valid for ten years, although stateless persons will be required to renew them annually. The law will enter into force on 23 August this year. Former citizens of the USSR who did not acquire the citizenship of any its successor countries will be able to benefit from this new law. They will also benefit from the right to work, the right of residence, and access to naturalization. On 12 January, the Governments of Haiti and the Dominican Republic adopted a joint declaration to launch a process to identify and register all Haitian citizens on the territory of the Dominican Republic who lack a birth certificate. On 8 March, the Department of Brazzaville in the Republic of Congo launched an awareness campaign on birth registration and prevention of statelessness. The campaign is supported by twenty community-based volunteers trained by UNHCR. The campaign aims to sensitize 40,000 households and expand to other departments in April 2021. Finally on Action 6, on 18 February, a coalition of six opposition parties in Japan submitted a Bill for the Protection of Refugees and Other Persons to Parliament. Among other protection measures, the Bill adopts the customary international law definition of a stateless person and provides for the establishment of a SDP, as well as for the reception and integration of stateless persons. On 15 January, the National Law on Comprehensive Health Care and Care during Pregnancy and Early Childhood was published in the Official Gazette of Argentina. The law introduces substantial changes to the late birth registration procedure, allowing late birth registration to be processed through an administrative procedure rather than only by judicial decisions. In line with Action 7, Ensure birth registration for the prevention of statelessness, on 11 February, the ‘Law on Amendments to the Law on ExtraJudicial Procedures’ entered into force in Bosnia and Herzegovina. It enables courts to determine the place and date of birth of persons who were not previously able to provide documentary proof to complete birth registration. The law is expected to particularly benefit children born outside of hospitals and children born abroad without a birth certificate and to reduce the risk of statelessness among the Roma community. The law’s enactment follows concerted advocacy efforts by UNHCR and the legal aid NGO Vasa Prava BiH. Finally, on Action 7, the Government of Jordan has continued its efforts to ensure that persons of concern to UNHCR are issued with birth certificates and other civil registration documents despite constraints imposed by the current pandemic. In the first quarter of 2021, the Civil Status Department issued a total of 616 birth certificates to refugees and asylum seekers while the local shari’a courts processed more than 250 marriage and kinship certificates that are usually needed to obtain a birth certificate. 6