At the UNHCR High-Level Segment on Statelessness held this week in Geneva, UN member states made over 300 pledges to tackle statelessness. A press release [3] issued by the UNHCR revealed that pledges included commitments to accede or ratify the UN statelessness conventions [4], to improve naturalization processes for stateless people, to ensure universal birth registration, to provide protection to stateless people, and to reform national laws that require citizenship to be inherited from the father and not mother. As the UNHCR explains, it is now up to the UN member states to implement their pledges in practice.