2019 Statelessness & Citizenship Review 1(2) potential than it is to resolve a problem once created. No state needs to live with this risk, or to put its citizens at risk given the available tools. PROVIDING ANNUAL DATA ON STATELESSNESS To resolve cases, to manage risks, and to ensure a continuous effort to avoid and address statelessness, it is imperative that all states adopt effective systems to report on statelessness issues. In closing, an increasing change in perception with regard to nationality itself might also be noted. Is this an exclusive sovereign determination when it is also an individual right? Does it make sense that states maintain very distinct and often incompatible approaches to something that is so critical to individual survival, having a nationality? As we move toward the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Sustainable Development Goals, 27 will the need for legal identity for all result in nationality for all? There are many ways in which people, communities, societies as well as nations determine their identity. While it has been suggested that nationality status is but a legal construct that is not determinative of an individual’s or of a nation’s aspirations, most of these aspirations are fully dependent on having the legal identity to begin with. The #IBelong Campaign presents a long-awaited opportunity to develop our notions of nationality and identity, to evolve our thinking regarding belonging and to advance not only legal, but also societal and cultural constructs that will stand the test of time in ending statelessness as a tolerated and marginalised condition. Every effort must be made toward this end. 27 Transforming Our World: The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, UN Doc A/RES/70/1 (21 October 2015). 314

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