designed to help bring Swedish law and practice further in line with the standards of the two UN Statelessness Conventions. offering a new training for legal counsellors and solicitors. On 2 February, in Niger, the joint-project co-led by the government and UNHCR ‘‘Recensement Administratif de Développement à Vocation Humanitaire’’ on documentation of people forcibly displaced in the Diffa region was formally presented to local authorities and humanitarian actors during a validation workshop. One of the project’s aims is to support the identification of persons at risk of statelessness and to support solutions for such persons. In January 2017, UNHCR published a study Mapping Statelessness in Austria. The study’s main recommendations are the establishment of a statelessness determination procedure and an improved safeguard against statelessness at birth in the country. As an immediate follow-up to the publication, UNHCR took steps to enhance the awareness and capacity of legal aid providers in Austria with respect to statelessness by Media Impact of the Campaign Read our latest news stories about persons of Indonesian descent benefitting from late civil registration in Glan. Learn more about DHRRA’s mapping and legal aid project in West Malaysia and watch the story of a family in Perak struggling to acquire legal documentation. When UNHCR met her in 2015, Artee Ma-Yer was a stateless student in northern Thailand. She shared her dreams and challenges in a workshop with stateless youth in Chiang Rai province and was featured in a UNHCR report titled, “I Am Here, I Belong: The Urgent Need to End Childhood Statelessness”. Two years later, Artee has acquired Thai nationality with the help of UNHCR and UNHCR’s partner, the Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA). Artee’s case is one of thousands that the Royal Thai Government has solved. These efforts are critical to achieving the goal of the #IBelong Campaign to End Statelessness by 2024. “My life has changed. Now I’ve become a bird that can fly everywhere I want in the sky.” Learn more about Artee’s story © UNHCR/Roger Arnold 5

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