Media impact of the Campaign On 4 November, UNHCR launched a large-scale information and advocacy campaign in Tajikistan on the consequences of statelessness and the importance of birth registration. The campaign included a series of radio programs aired by two radio stations, video clips broadcast through national TV channels and human-interest stories published in mass media and on social media platforms. A TV program on statelessness and birth registration was also broadcast through a national TV station with the participation of key government counterparts. The campaign was concluded on 16 December with a program on radio Asia Plus that included the UNHCR Representative of Tajikistan. UNHCR’s Regional Representation for EU Affairs produced a short animated video to support EUrelated advocacy and communications work on ending statelessness. The video calls upon EU Member States to act in order to end statelessness in their own countries while also supporting other countries to do so. In Madagascar, the singer Jaojoby collaborated with the NGO Focus to launch a national media campaign to raise awareness on statelessness among the general public. Jaojoby is an artist and music composer known as the King of Salegy, which is the Malagasy traditional dance form from the north of the island. In Almaty, Kazakhstan, UNHCR and the NGO Kazakhstan International Bureau for Human Rights and the Rule of Law held a press briefing with journalists on 27 November to mark the mid-point of the #IBelong Campaign. The event raised awareness of statelessness-related issues and encouraged the Government, civil society and other stakeholders in Kazakhstan to join efforts to prevent and reduce statelessness. During the press conference, a former stateless person shared her experience in terms of the challenges she faced as an undocumented person and how acquisition of citizenship transformed her life. 11

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