Annex: Compendium of pledges delivered at the HLS Civil society organization Pledge Year of completion expected by the organization Relevant Action of the Global Action Plan/ Thematic Focus Scalabrini Centre of Cape Town Scalabrini Centre of Cape Town hereby commits: We commit to continuing to advocate against statelessness in Africa, particularly South Africa. We will do this through research as well as advocacy communications and high-level advocacy. We will also continue to assist individuals where such assistance is requested of us. No year of completion indicated Other (legal assistance) Scalabrini Centre of Cape Town hereby commits to advocate for South Africa’s ratification of international instruments relating to statelessness, such as the UN 1954 and 1961 Statelessness Conventions, as well as proper data collection and dissemination by the SA government related to children at risk of statelessness. We will also continue to advocate against the implementation of the Refugee Amendment Act where it is not in line with the UN Conventions. No year of completion indicated 9, 10 Conduct research on stateless persons to improve the availability of data on statelessness in Southern Africa. An online database for comparison of SADC countries will be made available. 2020 10 Promote and support legal assistance to stateless persons in Southern Africa by training, advising and assisting local legal partners in the region. No year of completion indicated Other (legal assistance) 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 Encourage its members in SADC to mainstream statelessness into their organisation’s work on children, women’s rights, minority rights and other rights. 2020 3, Other Advocate for and support SADC in creating a regional action plan to end statelessness in SADC. 2021 Other (regional action plan) Provide training on statelessness and access to nationality to SADC governments. 2024 Other (awareness raising/training) Conduct fundraising campaigns to support activities that aim to protect stateless persons and to end statelessness. 2021 Other (fundraising) 2024 2, 3, 7, 8, 10 Southern African Nationality Network Statelessness Network Asia Pacific The Statelessness Network Asia Pacific (SNAP), as a civil society coalition with the goal of promoting collaboration on addressing statelessness in Asia and the Pacific, pledges its solidarity in support of practical and implementable efforts to end childhood statelessness and to reform nationality laws, policies and practices that discriminate on the basis of gender, ethnicity and religion. 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 89