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
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 will focus on one of the most effective strategies to end statelessness: ensuring that no child is born without a nationality.
11 February 2026
Support the Joint Statement: Advancing Vocational Inclusion of Stateless People Across the UN
As part of a multi-pronged advocacy approach to scale up UNHCR’s good practice of removing barriers to the employment of stateless persons, the Joint Statement, drafted by Apatride Network, seeks to encourage all UN entities to follow suit. We are calling on Global Alliance members and other organizations to endorse it and sign on.
more6 February 2026
Call for Applications: UNHCR Global Advisory Board of Organizations Led by Forcibly Displaced and Stateless Persons
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has launched a Call for Expression of Interest for its Global Advisory Board of Organizations Led by Forcibly Displaced and Stateless (2026–2028). We strongly encourage stateless-led organizations within the Global Alliance network and beyond to apply by 8 February and bring their expertise and lived experience to this important global platform.
moreEvent date: 2 March 2026
Every child’s right to a nationality and identity: Preventing childhood statelessness
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.
Where? CENTRE D’ACCUEIL DE LA GENÈVE INTERNATIONALE, La Pastorale Route de Ferney 106, 1202 Genève
When? 2 March 2026, 10.15 – 11.45 am CET
For in-person participation, please register here: [email protected]
For online participation, please register here: https://l1nq.com/WAtr8
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.
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.