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 2: Solutions to End Childhood Statelessness
13 November 2025 13:30-15:00 CEST
The Global Alliance Thematic Working Group on Ending Childhood Statelessness is pleased to invite you to its inaugural global webinar which will showcase both high level and on the ground practices. Governments have a legal and moral duty to ensure children acquire a nationality at birth or as early as possible in life according to the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) and other international standards.
Stories & Interviews
15 October 2025
Call for Submission of Global Alliance Online Marketplace Snapshots
The first regular call for project snapshot submissions to the Global Alliance Online Marketplace is now open!
Members of the Global Alliance working on statelessness or equal nationality rights, and representing civil society organizations, stateless-led groups, or academic institutions, are invited to submit their project snapshots by 1 November 2025.
The Online Marketplace serves as a dynamic platform and repository for collaborative project proposals from Alliance members. It connects donors with impactful initiatives that advance our shared vision of ending statelessness.
more9 October 2025
One year of collective action to end statelessness
Yesterday, at the Palais des Nations in Geneva, the Global Alliance to End Statelessness marked its first anniversary during a side event of UNHCR’s Executive Committee meeting.
Launched just one year ago, the Alliance has grown into a vibrant multi-stakeholder platform of 150 + members — including 25 States, 11 intergovernmental organizations, and a broad network of civil society and stateless-led organizations – all working together to ensure that no one is left without a nationality.
moreEvent date: 13 November 2025
Knowledge Webinar Series – Webinar 2: Solutions to End Childhood Statelessness
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 second session, Solutions to End Childhood Statelessness, is organized by the Global Alliance Thematic Working Group on Ending Childhood Statelessness. It takes place on 13 November 2015, 13:30-15:00 CET and will showcase both high level and on the ground practices.
Registration & Meeting link
Please register to receive the webinar link: https://shorturl.at/Ck7D9
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.
18 June 2025
Ensuring Vocational Inclusion for Stateless Individuals
Stateless individuals face daily obstacles in accessing basic services – whether opening a bank account, booking travel, or securing employment. One often overlooked but fundamental barrier is the absence of a “stateless” or “undefined” nationality option in digital forms and application systems. Without it, individuals are frequently forced to enter inaccurate information or abandon applications altogether. Employers, including legal and HR teams, are often unsure how to process applications from individuals without nationality, even when they have the legal right to work. This lack of clarity and inclusion in administrative systems contributes – often unintentionally – to vocational exclusion.
An encouraging step forward came in August 2024, when UNHCR became the first UN agency to update its recruitment platform to accommodate stateless applicants. This progress followed sustained engagement by the stateless-led organization Apatride Network, whose advocacy helped identify and address technical barriers in the application process, that previously prevented stateless people from applying. In collaboration with its legal and human resources teams, UNHCR resolved the dropdown menu issue and clarified internal procedures – creating a more inclusive and accessible path for stateless candidates.