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
ActivitiesPast webinars
Side Event on Achieving Gender Equality in Nationality Laws at the 70th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women
10 March 2026 16:00-17:15 CET
The CSW side event – titled Equal Nationality Rights for Equal Citizens – organized at the 70th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women in New York, highlighted how gender discrimination in nationality laws entrenches patriarchal systems and denies women equal citizenship. Government, UN and civil society leaders demonstrated the urgency of removing gender discriminatory nationality provisions and the transformative impact of reform
Every child’s right to a nationality and identity: Preventing childhood statelessness
2 March 2026 10:15-11:45 CEST
Statelessness remains a significant challenge affecting millions worldwide. At the end of 2024, at least 4.4 million stateless persons and persons of undetermined nationality were reported across 101 countries – with children representing 44% of those affected.
This Human Rights Council (HRC) side event focused on one of the most effective strategies to end statelessness: ensuring that no child is born without a nationality.
Knowledge Webinar 5 – Unlocking Futures: Realizing the Right to Education for Stateless Persons
18 December 2025 10:00-11:30 CEST
The fifth session, Unlocking Futures: Realizing the Right to Education for Stateless Persons, organized by the respective Global Alliance Thematic Working Group, took place on 18 December 2025, 10h00 – 11h30 CET. It served 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 brought 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.
Stories & Interviews
23 March 2026
Strengthening statelessness data: International Recommendations on Statelessness Statistics (IROSS)
Reliable data on statelessness remains a major gap. In many contexts, stateless populations remain invisible in official statistics. The International Recommendations on Statelessness Statistics (IROSS), represent an important step forward. Find out more by reading this article
more11 March 2026
Human Rights Council side event highlights solutions to childhood statelessness
On 2 March 2026, the Global Alliance to End Statelessness and partners convened a side event during the 61st session of the UN Human Rights Council titled “Every Child’s Right to a Nationality and Identity: Preventing Childhood Statelessness.” The event brought together governments, UN agencies, regional organizations, civil society and stateless-led groups to exchange experiences and highlight practical solutions to ensure that no child is born without a nationality.
more9 April 2026
Churches Have a Responsibility to Act Against Statelessness
Churches and faith-based organizations have a moral responsibility and an important role to play in preventing and reducing statelessness. Drawing on their moral voice, community presence, and long-standing commitment to social justice, churches are well placed to support practical actions that protect vulnerable people and help ensure every person has a nationality.
In Liberia, Church Aid, Inc., together with its partners, has demonstrated this potential in practice. Through community-based initiatives to support birth registration, more than 20,000 children were able to obtain birth certificates, reducing their risk of statelessness and exclusion.
For many churches, engagement on statelessness is grounded in scripture and faith. The Bible reminds us not to oppress the foreigner, because we ourselves know what it means to be vulnerable. It calls believers to show hospitality to strangers and to stand up for those who cannot defend themselves. When people are hurting, the church has a responsibility to bring relief. A Christianity that ignores injustice and suffering does not reflect the character or mission of Christ.
Stateless persons are no exception.
5 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.