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
7 October 2026
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