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 Statelessnes, 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. 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.
Solutions will include those that ensure no child is born stateless such as the Foundling Act 2022 in the Philippines and those highlighted in the 2025 OSCE-UNHCR publication on Prevention of Childhood Statelessness. On the ground solutions include those addressing statelessness among Roma children in Montenegro and child friendly tools to promote the New African Union Protocol on the Right to a Nationality and the eradication of Statelessness in Africa and its benefits for children. Other solutions that ensure that every child has a nationality and address existing situations of childhood statelessness will also be explored.
Speaker list
Moderator: Kirsten Di Martino, Senior Child Protection Advisor, UNICEF
Speakers:
- Melvin Suarez, State Counsel – Department of Justice, Philippines; Chair of the Global Alliance Advisory Committee
- Christophe Kamp, Ambassador – OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities
- Tahera Hasan, Director – Imkaan Welfare Organization, Pakistan and Statelessness and Dignified Citizenship Coalition – Asia Pacific
- Elvis Beriša, CEO & Founder – Phiren Amenca, Montenegro
- Thandeka Chauke, Coordinator – Southern African Nationality Network, South Africa
Interpretation
The event will take place in English with simultaneous interpretation into Arabic and French.
Registration & Meeting link
Please use the link below to register and receive the webinar link:
https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/fd1e5b85-195e-4f15-af0c-b152329ac44c@e5c37981-6664-4134-8a0c-6543d2af80be
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