EC/68/SC/CRP.13 Executive Committee of the High Commissioner’s Programme Distr.: Restricted 7 June 2017 English Original: English and French Standing Committee 69th meeting Update on statelessness Summary This paper highlights significant progress made in relation to key actions advocated by UNHCR’s #IBelong Campaign to End Statelessness by 2024 since the update provided two years ago (EC/66/SC/CRP.11). It discusses the establishment and progress of a number of regional initiatives to prevent and address statelessness, and describes tangible action taken by States to reduce the number of stateless persons. UNHCR’s supporting efforts have included the promotion of law reform and administrative capacity-building to encourage the adoption of legal safeguards to prevent childhood statelessness, remove gender discrimination from nationality laws, establish dedicated statelessness determination procedures, and increase access to birth registration and nationality documentation for communities at risk of statelessness.