Why the Global Alliance and why is it important?
The Global Alliance is both a space and a communicative energy to bring forward our commitment for no statelessness anywhere in the world. The global landscape and statelessness are fundamentally needed now because it creates a platform, an initiative and an energy that works to finally end statelessness worldwide.
The community of the Global Alliance will be a workspace that is inspiring, that shines a light on how together we can work on a common human rights problem. And how a diversity of views from the people most affected, stateless people themselves, to experts, civil society organizations, to UN agencies, to governments can come together, discuss, think, examine good practice, and ultimately take the steps necessary to end statelessness.
From all those myriads of problems, this issue, statelessness, is a fundamentally fixable one. And so, we are confident that if we pull together and do the work and mobilize the resources, we can arrive at the year 2030 with every single person on earth carrying a nationality and participating fully in their own societies.
Claude Cahn
Human Rights Officer, UN Human Rights Office (OHCHR)
31 August 2026
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