A ministerial conference on the Eradication of Statelessness in the Great Lakes Region was held in Nairobi from 16-18 April 2019, with participants drawn from 12 Member States from the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR). The event that was co-organised by Government of Kenya’s Ministry of Interior, the ICGLR Executive Secretariat, and the UN Refugee Agency, UNHCR agreed on common approaches on the right to belong for minority groups in the great lakes region.