Why the Global Alliance and why hope?
I represent the United Stateless. We are a national stateless-led organization, working to build a community of people affected by statelessness, and to also use our legal empowerment to permanently adjust statelessness in the United States.
The Global Alliance allows for a transformative vision to make statelessness a relic of the past so that everyone has equal access to a nationality. We can permanently address the issue of statelessness only by working together.
There is a strength in unity, and it is even more powerful when that unity is diverse. And by collaboratively taking on this issue with a uniform approach that allows for understanding of all perspectives, you can really address this issue.
The Global Alliance unites us under a vision for a statelessness free world. And it gives us the opportunity to collectively hold power to put towards a lasting impact and legacy for future generations. This is how we address statelessness from ever happening in this world, by working together.
Karina Ambartsoumian-Clough
Executive Director, United Stateless
29 July 2026
From Policy to People: Closing the Gap on Statelessness in Thailand
Thailand’s journey toward addressing statelessness has been shaped by decades of policy reform, community advocacy, and growing national recognition that legal identity is fundamental to human dignity, inclusion, and development. Over the years, Thailand has taken important steps to reduce statelessness and resolve long-standing issues of undocumented status, particularly among ethnic minorities, border communities, long-term migrants, and people whose births or family records were never properly registered.
A major milestone came with the 29 October 2024 Cabinet Resolution, which was designed to create clearer and faster pathways to nationality or secure legal status for more than 480,000 people. The resolution marked a historic turning point by shortening processing timelines significantly.
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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.
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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).
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