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
2nd quarterly meeting of the Thematic Working Group (TWG) on Addressing Discrimination in Nationality Laws and Policies
3 June 2026 14:00-15:30 CEST
The 2nd quarterly meeting of the Thematic Working Group (TWG) on Addressing Discrimination in Nationality Laws and Policies was held on Wednesday, 3 June 2026, from 14:00 to 15:30 CET
2nd quarterly meeting of the Thematic Working Group (TWG) on “Ending Childhood Statelessness”
27 May 2026 14:00-15:30 CEST
The 2nd quarterly meeting of the Thematic Working Group (TWG) on Ending Childhood Statelessness” was held on Wednesday, 27 May 2026, from 14:00 to 15:30 CET. The recording of the meeting can be found above.
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
Stories & Interviews
7 May 2026
Thinking of a Gift for Mother’s Day? Support Equal Nationality Rights for Mothers
This Mother’s Day, countries across Africa will celebrate mothers and the importance of family life. Yet as we honor motherhood and the important role of families, seven countries in Africa continue to be among the 24 globally with nationality laws that deny women the right to confer nationality on their children on an equal basis with men. Additionally, nationality laws in approximately 40% of African countries do not provide women with the same rights as men to confer nationality on a noncitizen spouse.
more23 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
more4 June 2026
Reducing statelessness in Kazakhstan: joint efforts of the government and civil society
As part of efforts to reduce the number of stateless persons in Kazakhstan, the Kazakhstan International Bureau for Human Rights and the Rule of Law (KIBHR), in collaboration with the Ministry of Internal Affairs, conducted a joint campaign to identify and document stateless persons in late 2025. During the 2025 campaign, lawyers, together with migration service officials, identified 380 stateless persons. In the same period, 153 people were supported by KIBHR lawyers to confirm or acquire citizenship.
21 April 2026
Strategic Advocacy for the Right to Nationality through the UN Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR)
At the International Center for Supporting Rights and Freedoms (ICSRF), we consider the right to nationality one of the most fundamental human rights, no less important than the right to life. Based on this principle, and since joining the Global Alliance to End Statelessness, ICSRF has worked to ensure that statelessness risks are consistently taken into account within international human rights mechanisms, particularly the Universal Periodic Review (UPR).