Insecurity and Detention Ensure that statelessness determination procedures and asylum processes continue to operate during the pandemic; that increased policing powers are proportionate and do not result in the arbitrary targeting of vulnerable groups including the stateless; that immigration detainees are released with adequate status and support; and stateless persons, migrants and others are not detained as part of the COVID-19 response. New Risks of Statelessness Treat registration services as essential, and ensure that birth registration and documentation services continue to operate during the pandemic; extend the validity of nationality and residency documentation even if people cannot apply at this time; combat intergenerational statelessness; and when encountering persons without documentation, desist from penalising them for this (through detention, denial of relief and access to healthcare etc.), but instead, to provide them with documentation and nationality. Sustaining Engagement on Statelessness and the Right to Nationality Support long-term work to provide direct services to stateless persons as well as dedicated COVID-19 responses that include the stateless; promote greater attention to statelessness by UN, media and other actors; call for dedicated, intersectional and joined-up action to protect the rights of all vulnerable groups, including the stateless; and renew commitment to realising the right to a nationality for all. 6 6. Media and social media actors, to act responsibly, only publish verified information, counter xenophobia and hate speech and take decisive action against those who abuse media platforms to provoke hatred and prejudice against the stateless, migrants, minorities and other marginalised groups. 7. Donors, to support stateless communities, the crucial work of activists and grassroots groups, as well as the tracking, coordination and advocacy conducted at national, regional and international levels, to provide for and draw attention to the needs of stateless persons at this time. Most importantly, we remind all stakeholders of the imperative to listen to, work with and be guided by stateless activists and communities, and to be accountable to them for actions and inaction, during this time of crisis and beyond. While the price already paid has been immense, we hope that through urgent and concerted action, we will together be able to promote a rights-based, inclusive and non-discriminatory response to COVID-19, based on the premise that no one, including the stateless, should be left behind. We stand ready to share information and work with all stakeholders in order to further this goal.