Annex: Compendium of pledges delivered at the HLS Year of completion expected by the organization Relevant Action of the Global Action Plan/ Thematic Focus KHRC commits to mobilize, organize and support all the stateless communities and persons to submit their application to the government taskforce in order to resolve their statelessness situation by 2020. 2021 1 To provide support and advice to the parliament of Kenya and the ministry responsible for registration of stateless persons to review and amend existing laws so as to eliminate unequal treatment of stateless persons and create stronger safeguards for the protection and recognition of stateless either through naturalization or other forms of nationality acquisition as a form of redress for historical injustices of non-recognition by creating legal prevention to resolve existing situations of statelessness in Kenya. 2022 1, 8 The KHRC commits to advocate and provide legal support to reform the nationality law to insert a safeguard to ensure that a child born in Kenya that would otherwise be stateless would be attributed nationality at birth in line with Article 53(1) of the constitution of Kenya which gives every child a right to a name and a nationality from birth and Article 6 (4) of the African Charter of the rights and welfare of the Child to which Kenya is party by 2023. 2023 2 KHRC commits to continue creating public awareness on statelessness and providing oversight and technical support to all government agencies in the interventions and strategies to identify, reduce, and prevent statelessness. 2024 Other No year of completion indicated Other (legal assistance) Advocate for and support the government of South Africa in creating a national action plan to end statelessness in South Africa. 2021 Other (National Action Plan) Advocate for the prompt adoption of the African Union’s “Draft Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Specific Aspects of the Right to a Nationality and the Eradication of Statelessness in Africa” and promote full implementation and domestication thereof. 2024 Other Mainstream statelessness into the organisation’s work on children, women’s rights, minority rights and other rights and encourage its partners to do the same. 2020 3, Other Provide training on statelessness and access to nationality to various stakeholders in both government and civil society in South Africa. 2024 Other (training/ awareness raising) Conduct fundraising campaigns to support activities that aim to protect stateless persons and to end statelessness. 2021 Other (fundraising) Advocate for universal birth registration free of discrimination. 2024 7 Conduct strategic litigation to build a sound jurisprudence in South Africa on the right to a nationality. 2024 Other (legal assistance) Civil society organization Pledge Kenya Human Rights Commission Lawyers for Human Rights Provide direct legal assistance and representation in courts to stateless persons and those at risk of statelessness in South Africa. U N H C R > H I G H - L E V E L S E G M E N T O N S T A T E L E S S N E S S : R E S U LT S A N D H I G H L I G H T S 87