In Nepal, the Law, Justice and Human Rights Committee of the House of Representatives of Nepal’s Federal Parliament and the Forum for Women, Law and Development organized a meeting with senior parliamentarians to discuss the pending Citizenship Act Amendment Bill. The Bill would introduce nationality by descent to children born to at least one parent who acquired citizenship by birth and grant Nepali mothers the right to confer nationality to their children in situations where the father is not identified. These two provisions could facilitate access to Nepali citizenship for over 1 million persons. Europe In April, UNHCR provided a virtual presentation to the United Kingdom Royal Statistical Society on the issue of statelessness statistics, specifically highlighting the ongoing work and challenges with the development of International Recommendations on Statelessness Statistics to be presented to the UN Statistical Commission for adoption in March 2023. In Italy, UNHCR renewed its partnership with three Universities in Naples, Rome and Turin, to run statelessness legal clinics. Until the end of 2022, 18 law students, supported by qualified lawyers, will provide free legal advice to stateless persons. Stateless and formerly stateless activists founded Union Italiana Apolidi (Italian Stateless Union), the first stateless-led organization in Italy. UNHCR financially supported the formal registration of the organization. The organization will work towards community building and empowerment and work to ensure that the voices of stateless persons are heard and to advocate for their protection and human rights. reduction of statelessness and the implementation of the government’s 2019 HLS pledges. Out of the 545 registered stateless persons in Azerbaijan, 154 so far have applied for naturalization. UNHCR provided legal assistance to 74 persons and covered the naturalisation administrative fees for 54 stateless persons. In Bosnia and Herzegovina, UNHCR organised a high-level Round Table on eradicating statelessness in Sarajevo in May. During the roundtable, participants discussed outstanding actions required to end statelessness. Participants included government authorities in charge of citizenship, civil registration, guardianship and free legal aid, the Institution of Ombudsmen for Human Rights, UNICEF, OSCE and the Association Vasa Prava BiH. The roundtable resulted in a set of recommendations, including access to birth registration, residence records and documentation, and access to free legal aid. In June, UNHCR participated in the statelessness subgroup meeting of the Expert Group on Refugee, IDP and Statelessness Statistics (EGRISS), aimed at finalizing the draft International Recommendations on Statelessness Statistics (IROSS), ahead of submission to the UN Statistical Commission in March 2023. The event was held in Copenhagen and brought together representatives from 15 States and 11 institutions. The IROSS is aimed at collecting more and better official statistics on statelessness. In North Macedonia, the Ministry of Justice established a working group tasked with the development of a draft Law on Civil Registration. This presents opportunities to include relevant provisions, including on late birth registration which is an important safeguard to prevent statelessness. In Azerbaijan, UNHCR and the State Migration Service organized a meeting of the Working Group on Statelessness (WGS). The WGS includes six key government stakeholders and UNHCR and focuses on tracking progress towards the prevention and UNHCR > The Campaign to End Statelessness | April – June 2022 Update Members of the newly-established stateless-led organization, Unione Italiana Apolidi. © Unione Italiana Apolidi 8