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
We are pleased to announce the upcoming Regional Expert Roundtable on the Prevention of Childhood Statelessness in Europe and Central Asia, co-organized by the UNHCR Regional Bureau for Europe, the Council of Europe (European Committee on Legal Co-operation – CDCJ), the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), including the High Commissioner on National Minorities (HCNM) and the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), and the European Network on Statelessness (ENS). This in-person event will take place on 20–21 October 2026 at the premises of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) in Warsaw, Poland.
On October 9, 2026 Pan African Nationality Network (PANN), in collaboration with the Global Alliance to End Statelessness, UNHCR, Southern Africa Nationality Network (SANN), Eastern Africa Nationality Network (EANN), Institute for Human Rights and Development in Africa (IHRDA), Hawiati (MENA Statelessness Network), co-hosted an in-person side event in Dakar, Senegal. The event examined how the right to a nationality is protected within the African human rights system and explored collective civil society actions to eradicate statelessness across the continent.
The session was open with lived experience reflections, followed by three interconnected segments exploring the legal framework, regional experiences, and strategic civil society responses.
65th Anniversary of the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness
2 September 2026 10:00-11:30 CEST
On 2 September 2026, the Global Alliance to End Statelessness hosted a virtual event marking the 65th anniversary of the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness, the principal international treaty dedicated to preventing statelessness and helping ensure every person’s right to a nationality.
Stories & Interviews
22 October 2026
Standing To End Statelessness: A Conversation with ICDH in Haiti on the Frontlines of Human Rights
As the Global Alliance to End Statelessness marks its second anniversary and reaches a powerful network of 200 members strong, we are reminded that tangible progress on addressing and preventing statelessness is possible through our collective action, in particular supporting the most vulnerable and at risk of being left behind. To explore our shared vision and what it truly means to fight for the “right to have rights,” we sat down in a short conversation with Mr. Urbens Wilbert DIEUVEUIL, Director of Initiative Citoyenne pour les Droits de l’Homme, ICDH that proudly stepped forward as the 200th member of the Global Alliance.
more21 October 2026
African Human Rights Day: Call for Action on the Right to a Nationality and the Eradication of Statelessness in Africa
On African Human Rights Day, as we mark 40 years since the entry into force of the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights, we are calling for renewed action to protect the right to a nationality and end statelessness across Africa.
A joint statement led by the Pan African Nationality Network (PANN), the South African Nationality Network (SANN), the Global Alliance to End Statelessness, Lawyers for Human Rights and other partner organizations highlights that nationality is fundamental to human dignity, equality, belonging and full participation in society.
7 October 2026
Why We’re Launching the Month of Action Against Statelessness
The Stateless Month of Action is an open invitation to come stand with us and help us build a world where everyone’s right to a nationality is recognized.
31 August 2026
Foundlings at risk of statelessness in the Philippines: Progress and challenges
Legal change in recent years has significantly improved the rights of deserted or abandoned children in the Philippines to be granted citizenship, but there remain problems with implementation on the ground.