In Zambia, the Ministry of Home Affairs with the support of UNHCR conducted a registration and certification exercise to prevent the risk of statelessness for refugees, asylum seekers and other vulnerable populations. For the first time, the Government used a new system to register and issue birth certificates on the spot. A total of 2,895 birth certificates were issued at the Mohebi and Mayukwayukwa refugee settlements. In doing so, Zambia fulfilled its 2019 HLS pledge. Leonid (middle), 26 years old, was the first person to be recognized as stateless in the Zakarpatska region of Ukraine and was assisted by UNHCR’s partner “NEEKA”. Recognized stateless persons with temporary residence permits are able to work and eventually have access to naturalization. © UNHCR partner “NEEKA” / Zoltan Fegesh In Venezuela, three mobile registration and documentation units, including UNHCR, the Civil Registry Office, the Office of the Ombudsperson, the Children’s Protection Council, Caritas, HIAS and IOM, facilitated the late birth registration of 238 Venezuelan children, including from the indigenous Arekuna, Jivi, Piaroa and Pemon communities in Bolivar State. In Ukraine, 875 applications for statelessness status were submitted to the State Migration Service, despite the ongoing war in Ukraine and the temporary suspension of the SDP from February to mid-May. A total of 175 persons have received statelessness status as of June 9. In the Netherlands, the House of Representatives adopted a law establishing an SDP in May. The introduction of the SDP provides the means to determine statelessness clearly and consistently, and ensure stateless persons are protected and have access to rights. This is in line with recommendations made by UNHCR in the report Mapping on statelessness in Netherlands. In addition to the SDP, an important amendment to the Nationality Act was adopted, providing undocumented stateless children access to Dutch nationality after five years residence. In line with Action 7: Ensure birth registration for the prevention of statelessness, in Sudan, the Civil Registry Department of the Ministry of Interior and UNHCR launched a birth registration campaign in eight states of Sudan (South, West, North Kordofan, East, North, Central Darfur States, Gadara and Khartoum). The campaign targeted 13,500 children without birth certificates. A total of 8,000 children so far have been registered and are awaiting their birth certificates. UNHCR > The Campaign to End Statelessness | April – June 2022 Update UNHCR and IOM staff during a mobile birth registration mission in Venezuela. ©Luis Cardenas/UNHCR Venezuela 3