Staff from the NGO Sana Sezim help Aizhan, a stateless person in South Kazakhstan, to receive identity documents which will enable her to access medical services and continue her education. © UNHCR/Frederic Noy Implementation of the Global Action Plan In line with Action 1, Resolve existing major situations of statelessness, within the first year of Kazakhstan’s country-wide statelessness identification and documentation campaign, more than 6,000 persons of undetermined nationality were registered, out of which close to 5,000 have now been documented, 3,400 became citizens of Kazakhstan and 1,600 were accorded statelessness status. To raise further public awareness of the campaign, coordination meetings and press briefings were held in eight regions of the country. The campaign is conducted by the Migration Services Committee of the Ministry of Interior, UNHCR and civil society partners. With regard to Actions 1 and 8, Issue nationality documentation to those with entitlement to it, from 23 to 25 November, the Department of Justice of The Philippines reviewed the nationality status of a group of people of Indonesian descent with undetermined nationality. This resulted in a determination of nationality of 123 people to either be Filipino, Indonesian or having dual citizenship. UNHCR is coordinating the effort between the Governments of the Philippines and Indonesia to issue nationality documentation to these individuals. In line with Action 2, Ensuring that no child is born stateless, the court of first instance of Dabou, Côte d’Ivoire, issued a judicial decision which clarifies that individuals who were born to unknown parents and found as a child on the territory can obtain the nationality of Côte d’Ivoire even if a nationality application is submitted in adulthood. This marks an important development in case law as previously nationality was only granted to foundlings where the application was submitted when the person in question was still a child. Côte d’Ivoire acceded to the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness in 2013 which require States Parties to grant nationality to stateless foundlings. UNHCR > The Campaign to End Statelessness | October – December 2021 Update 7