As Kholnazar’s (15) and Numon’s (12) mother is stateless, both children did not get birth certificates in Tajikistan and thus could not get school certificates. After resolving their stateless situation, Kholnazar and Numon will be able to graduate from secondary school and to continue their studies. © UNHCR/Didor Sadulloev On 31 July, the Central Asian Network on Statelessness conducted its fourth annual meeting in Almaty, Kazakhstan to review achievements and challenges related to the reduction and prevention of statelessness in Central Asia at the mid-point of the #IBelong Campaign. Some 30 members from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan agreed to strengthen regional efforts to end statelessness and to make pledges in this regard at the High-Level Segment on Statelessness. From 4 to 8 July, the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly during its 28th annual session adopted the Luxembourg Declaration and Resolutions, which called on OSCE participating States to support and protect stateless children within their borders and to take all possible measures to ensure that all stateless children can benefit from the right to citizenship, in accordance with international law. On 6 September, upon the invitation of Finland’s Presidency of the Council of the EU, UNHCR participated in a meeting of the European Council Working Party on Humanitarian Aid & Food Aid (COHAFA) in Brussels, Belgium. UNHCR’s Statelessness Section Chief updated the EU Member States on the key global achievements and challenges on statelessness, and provided information on the #IBelong Campaign and the High-Level Segment on Statelessness. On 5 and 6 September, UNHCR and the Office of the Commissioner for Human Rights in Kazakhstan, in close coordination with UNICEF and the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, organized the 2nd Central Asian Regional Conference on Birth Registration and Prevention of Statelessness in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan. Over 100 delegates from the five Central Asian countries explored concrete efforts to ensure universal birth registration and discussed how the upcoming round of national population censuses may be used in mapping stateless populations. 8