Georgia is a Liberian citizen. Her children were born in Nigeria to a Nigerian father who passed away. As their births were never registered in Nigeria and local laws prohibit Georgia from passing on her citizenship to them, the children are left stateless. Liberia is one of 25 countries that maintain such provisions. It is currently revising its nationality law, which may eventually allow Georgia to attain citizenship for her children. The 2020 Update of the Background Note on Gender Equality, Nationality Laws, and Statelessness provides further background information. © UNHCR/Diana Diaz Level Segment on Statelessness. There remain 25 countries where women cannot confer nationality to their children on an equal basis with men. life-threatening vulnerabilities. In June, the Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion (ISI) issued the report “Stateless in a Global Pandemic”. The report, which draws on the inputs of ISI’s partners from around the world, finds that stateless communities face very serious consequences in relation to health and wellbeing; survival and livelihoods; hate speech, racism and xenophobia; border closures and movement restrictions; insecurity and detention; as well as the knock-on effects of decreasing civil society engagement on statelessness and the right to nationality. On 25 June, during a virtual meeting organized by UNHCR and the Statelessness Network Asia Pacific (SNAP) in the Philippines, the national civil society organizations participating in the meeting agreed to establish a national statelessness network and develop Terms of Reference to institutionalize the network. Likely initiatives by the new national network include advocacy for law reform and awareness raising activities among persons of concern. On 27 May, a joint statement “In Solidarity with the Stateless” was issued by 84 civil society actors urging States, donors and other stakeholders to promote and protect the rights of stateless persons in their COVID-19 responses. The statement underlines that stateless persons were already marginalized before the crisis and that they now face even greater, In April and May in Kazakhstan, UNHCR and its legal partners conducted a series of online lectures on statelessness matters for students at Kazakh Al Farabi National University in Almaty, Miras University in Shymkent, and the State Universities in Karaganda and Uralsk. 2