Global Alliance to End Statelessness
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Join our new Global Alliance to End Statelessness
To be stateless, is to be denied a nationality. Officially, it’s almost as if you don’t exist. Millions of people are affected around the world, with serious impacts on their ability to enjoy even the most basic rights. However, statelessness is absolutely solvable… forever, for everyone. But change simply isn’t happening fast enough.
This is why we are calling on you to join with us, a diverse group of stakeholders – a Global Alliance to End Statelessness. Together we can catalyse and accelerate change. Because everyone deserves to enjoy the right to a nationality without discrimination.
Sign up now! The official launch of the Global Alliance took place on 14 October 2024 in Geneva at the High-Level Segment on Statelessness, on day one of UNHCR ExCom.
We need coordinated and collaborative action.
That’s why we are looking to bring together people with the energy, talent and power to make a difference. Convening stakeholders from right across the world in a spirit of openness, equality, and collaboration.
IntroductionWe need to act with bold pragmatism.
That’s why we are capacitating members with tools for focused and effective collaboration. So we can unite as a collective – listening to and learning from one another, exchanging ideas, and joining the dots in exciting and innovative new ways.
Knowledge HubWe need to consign Statelessness to history.
We will not rest until this happens. Acting together to identify and respond to the gaps in laws, policies and practice that are creating new cases of statelessness and letting existing situations linger
ActivitiesUpcoming webinars
Knowledge Webinar 5 – Unlocking Futures: Realizing the Right to Education for Stateless Persons
18 December 2025 10:00-11:30 CEST
The Global Alliance to End Statelessness launched a Knowledge Webinar Series, designed to spotlight concrete actions, lessons learned, and collaborative solutions to end statelessness worldwide.
The fifth session, Unlocking Futures: Realizing the Right to Education for Stateless Persons, is organized by the respective Global Alliance Thematic Working Group and will take place on 18 December 2025, 10h00 – 11h30 CET. It will serve to commemorate Human Rights Day on 10 December, underscoring the right to education as a core human right that must be guaranteed for all, including stateless persons. The webinar will bring together States, civil society, stateless-led organizations and partners to showcase good practices and spark collaborative efforts to ensure that no stateless person is left behind.
Please use the link below to register and receive the webinar link: https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/d5efe2d9-8d59-4ab3-b143-e4193c8cb92b@e5c37981-6664-4134-8a0c-6543d2af80be
Stories & Interviews
2 December 2025
Join the Advocacy: Endorse Letters Urging Stronger State Action on Statelessness
The Global Alliance Protection TWG, co-led by UNHCR and the Peter McMullin Centre on Statelessness, is supporting advocacy and awareness raising efforts to protect the rights of stateless persons. To achieve this, we are inviting Global Alliance members to endorse two letters: one addressed to States that have not yet acceded to the 1954 Convention, and another to States that are party to the Convention but have not yet established a Statelessness Determination Procedure.
more26 November 2025
Navigating a Difficult Funding Landscape: New Approaches to Resource Mobilization for Ending Statelessness
Efforts to address statelessness operate within a highly challenging fundraising landscape, characterized by declining official development assistance from governments and multilateral agencies. At the same time, raising resources for statelessness remains difficult due to limited donor awareness and a lack of understanding of the broader human rights implications of the issue.
moreEvent date: 9 December 2025 to 11 December 2025
4th Quarterly Meetings of the Global Alliance Thematic Working Groups
We are pleased to announce the upcoming 4th quarterly meetings of the three Thematic Working Groups (TWGs), which will take place virtually via Teams. These sessions will provide an opportunity for TWG members to engage in expert exchange and collaborative work in accordance with the 2025-2026 workplans.
Meeting Schedules:
Protecting the Rights of Stateless Persons: 9 December 2025, 10:00-11:30 (CET)
Addressing Discrimination in Nationality Laws & Policies: 10 December 2025, 14:00-15:30 (CET)
Ending Childhood Statelessness: 11 December 2025, 14:00-15:30 (CET)
Event date: 18 December 2025
Knowledge Webinar 5 – Unlocking Futures: Realizing the Right to Education for Stateless Persons
The Global Alliance to End Statelessness launched a Knowledge Webinar Series, designed to spotlight concrete actions, lessons learned, and collaborative solutions to end statelessness worldwide.
The fifth session, Unlocking Futures: Realizing the Right to Education for Stateless Persons, is organized by the respective Global Alliance Thematic Working Group and will take place on 18 December 2025, 10h00 – 11h30 CET. It will serve to commemorate Human Rights Day on 10 December, underscoring the right to education as a core human right that must be guaranteed for all, including stateless persons. The webinar will bring together States, civil society, stateless-led organizations and partners to showcase good practices and spark collaborative efforts to ensure that no stateless person is left behind.
Please use the link below to register and receive the webinar link: https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/d5efe2d9-8d59-4ab3-b143-e4193c8cb92b@e5c37981-6664-4134-8a0c-6543d2af80be
more5 December 2025
Latin American and Caribbean Civil Registration Week: An Initiative Ensuring Identity for All
The Latin American and Caribbean Council for Civil Registration, Identity, and Vital Statistics (CLARCIEV) is the organization behind the campaign “Latin American and Caribbean Civil Registration Week,” held from September 1 to 16, 2025, and which sought to safeguard the fundamental right to identity.
Under the slogan “Latin America and the Caribbean, a region without invisible people: identity for all!”, CLARCIEV intensified its efforts to register births, covering both children and adults who still lacked a birth certificate. As a result of the campaign a total of 32,177 birth registrations were performed.
3 November 2025
One Year On: The Movement’s Journey Within the Global Alliance to End Statelessness
Proximity and privilege deeply shape whose voices are heard in the global struggle to end statelessness. For millions of stateless people, barriers such as geography, limited resources, and lack of access to documentation mean exclusion not only from their governments but also from the global humanitarian and advocacy spaces that claim to represent them. Meanwhile, those with passports and institutional power often move freely within international systems that remain inaccessible to the very people they aim to serve.