In South Sudan, UNHCR organized a roundtable discussion with parliamentarians on the domestication of the Kampala convention, the South Sudan Durable Solutions Strategy and accessions to the Statelessness Conventions. A total of 40 members of parliament joined, including from relevant committees such as Humanitarian Affairs, Justice and Legislation. The roundtable was also attended by the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Disaster Management, the Commission for Refugees, ICRC and IOM. The Parliamentarians agreed on the importance of mitigating the risks of statelessness in the country and asked for a dedicated workshop on the subject. Asia In Burkina Faso, UNHCR and the government organized a two-day workshop with relevant government stakeholders to validate the draft Law on Civil Status, Nationality and the Domestication of the 1954 Convention relating to the status of stateless persons. The draft law is scheduled to be adopted by the Council of Ministers and the Transitional Legislative Assembly in the second half of 2022. In April 2022 the Central Asian Network on Statelessness and UNHCR co-convened the 6th CANS Annual Meeting and the Central Asian Sub-Regional Consultations on Statelessness in Uzbekistan. Civil society organizations, academia, national human rights institutions, representatives from the Ombudsperson, UN agencies and international organization from across Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan came together to discuss progress, opportunities, challenges, and strategic priorities to resolve statelessness in Central Asia by the end of the #IBelong campaign in 2024. Americas In Chile, UNCHR’s partner Alberto Hurtado University, and the Commission of the Venezuelan Diaspora in Chile organized an awareness raising session on social media, to advise members of the community on the risks of statelessness. In Panama, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs convened an inter-agency meeting to discuss the establishment of an Inter-Agency Commission on Statelessness. The meeting was attended by several line ministries, including Labour and Development, Public Affairs, Justice, Health and the Attorney General’s Office and the Ombudsman’s Office, the National Secretariat for Children, Adolescents and the Family and UNHCR. The Inter-Agency Commission would be an important first step towards the implementation of the pledge of the Government of Panama at the 2019 High-Level Segment on Statelessness (HLS). UNHCR > The Campaign to End Statelessness | April – June 2022 Update In the Kyrgyz Republic, UNHCR and the Ministry of Digital Development convened a national roundtable in Bishkek to review and discuss country experiences in relation to the implementation of the 1954 and 1961 UN Statelessness Conventions. The roundtable was attended by line ministries, civil society and UN agencies and examined the way forward for the implementation of the conventions, the four pledges that were made by the Kyrgyz Republic during the 2019 High Level Segment on Statelessness (HLS) and other recommended law and policy reforms. In Vietnam, the Ministry of Justice organized a workshop on the implementation of the Prime Minister’s 2020 Decision on Statelessness. Topics included the identification and protection of stateless persons and persons of undetermined nationality in Vietnam, the reduction of statelessness, required legislative reform to effectively prevent and reduce statelessness and future accession to the Statelessness Conventions. In the Philippines, UNHCR and the Ministry of Social Services and Development held a series of coordination meetings with municipal authorities in the island provinces of Basilan, Sulu and Tawi-Tawi. In line with the National Action Plan, these provinces are being prioritized in an ongoing birth registration initiative in 2022. The meetings were the starting point for coordinated efforts regarding digitization of birth registration, capacity development, and public awareness raising. 7