On 25 and 26 October, UNHCR organized the annual “Nationality and Statelessness Moot Court Competition and Conference” in Mutare, Zimbabwe. The competition and conference aims to raise awareness and strengthen knowledge on nationality and statelessness among future lawyers, leaders and decision-makers. On 8 November, UNHCR and UNICEF organized an award ceremony for the “My nationality has a story” contest in Santiago, Chile. The contest was an initiative of the UNHCR-UNICEF Coalition to End Childhood Statelessness and invited 5th to 8th grade students to write stories on the right of every person to a nationality. From 29 October to 3 November, in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea, the African Union’s Specialised Technical Committee (AUSTC) on Migration, Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons adopted the draft Protocol on the Specific Aspects on the Right to a Nationality and the Eradication of Statelessness in Africa. It will next be reviewed by the AU STC on Legal Affairs, prior to its adoption and ratification by States. On 8 and 9 November, in Dalat, Vietnam, Vietnam’s Representatives to the ASEAN Commission on the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Women and Children, in partnership with UNHCR, organized a regional consultation workshop on ensuring the recognition of legal identity for all women and children in ASEAN. The workshop resulted in an agreement that Member States need to prioritize the issues of universal birth registration, access to nationality for foundlings, gender equality in nationality laws and improved data collection. On 31 October, the 2nd OSCE-UNHCR Practical Seminar on Sharing Good Practices on Statelessness among OSCE participating States took place in Vienna, Austria. The OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities and delegates from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Iceland, the Russian Federation and Turkmenistan attended the seminar, where they shared their good practices and lessons learned concerning the prevention and reduction of statelessness. Award ceremony for the “My nationality has a story” contest in Santiago, Chile, ©UNHCR/E. Paz 5