MAY 2021 From 2016 to 2020, Right & Prosperity in collaboration with UNHCR and UNICEF, represented the interests of 140 people in court cases to establish the fact of birth and confirm paternity and maternity in order to gain access to birth registration and to citizenship for those who have reached age 16. Some 55 per cent of them were women and girls. In Tajikistan, according to UNHCR partners data, more than 70 per cent of stateless people and those at risk of statelessness are women and girls. Between 2014 and 2020, they registered 49,409 stateless people in Tajikistan, of whom 34,539 were girls and women. A total of 44,063 people (31,099 women and girls) successfully resolved their statelessness and received identification documents. To help the thousands of other people in Tajikistan who find themselves in a situation like Adolat’s, changes must be made to ensure that birth registration is mandatory, regardless of the parent’s legal status and whether or not the parent has valid identity documents. National legislation on birth registration in Tajikistan does not comply with the provisions of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, which Tajikistan is a party to. In 2014, after the launch of the #IBELONG campaign, the Government of Tajikistan created an Interagency Working Group on Statelessness and Citizenship. The group included representatives of UNHCR and Right & Prosperity. The Group’s activities resulted in the new Constitutional Law “On Citizenship of the Republic of Tajikistan” (2015) and the Law “On amnesty related to legalization of persons without citizenship and foreign nationals illegally staying in the territory of the Republic of Tajikistan (2019). The Law on Amnesty became the key to solving complex cases of statelessness in Tajikistan. The original case study was contributed by Roza Minasyan and Khisrav Kholov (UNHCR). 13