32 Pledges 2011 - Ministerial Intergovernmental Event on Refugees and Stateless Persons Theme of the Pledge States/Groups of States/Organizations making a pledge Group Pledge: Australia, Denmark, Finland, Hungary, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and the United States of America 2. Example of pledges Basic text: “To enhance the delivery of comprehensive durable solutions, notably in protracted refugee situations, we pledge to work with other Member States, UNHCR and partners to promote increased opportunities for refugee resettlement, the participation of new resettlement countries, improved integration outcomes for resettled refugees, and the strategic use of resettlement to unlock the other durable solutions of voluntary repatriation and local integration.” STATELESSNESS The Ministerial Intergovernmental Event galvanized an unprecedented commitment to take action to address statelessness, demonstrated by the extraordinary number of statelessness-related pledges made by States from around the world. A total of sixty-two States and one regional body made statelessness-related pledges. Thirty-three States pledged to accede, or to take steps to accede, to one or both of the Statelessness Conventions. Forty-two States and one regional body made statelessness-related pledges in other fields, including: • • Twelve States that pledged to undertake law reform to prevent or reduce statelessness (including removing gender discrimination from their nationality laws); Twelve States that pledged to implement better civil registration and documentation systems to prevent and reduce statelessness;