Leaving No One Behind: Statelessness and the Sustainable Development Goals List of focus boxes A) The principal causes of statelessness 16 B) Legal protections against statelessness for children 17 C) Global Action Plan to End Statelessness 2.0 18 D) Kenya shares insights on the link between ending statelessness and the attainment of the SDGs 22 E) The socioeconomic impact of the resolution of statelessness on the Shona Community in Kenya 27 F) The impact of Colombia’s grant of nationality to the children of Venezuelan migrants and refugees 30 G) Thailand: inequalities in access to health care revealed by comprehensive survey data 36 H) Public health and stateless persons: the lessons of the COVID pandemic 37 I) Who is being left behind and why: five key factors 49 J) Counting stateless persons: Nepal and Côte d’Ivoire 52 K) Integration of statelessness into the national development plans of the Philippines 54 L) Extracts from United Nations Sustainable Development Cooperation Frameworks 56 Abbreviations IOM International Organization for Migration IROSS International Recommendations on Statelessness Statistics OECD Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development OHCHR United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights SDCF Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework SDG Sustainable Development Goal UN United Nations UNDP United Nations Development Programme UNESCO United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization UNFPA United Nations Population Fund UNHCR United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees UNICEF United Nations Children’s Fund USAID United States Agency for International Development 6