One year of collective action to end statelessness
On 8 October 2025, at the Palais des Nations in Geneva, the Global Alliance to End Statelessness mark
ed its first anniversary during a side event of UNHCR’s Executive Committee meeting.
Launched just one year ago, the Alliance has grown into a vibrant multi-stakeholder platform of 150 + members – including 25 States, 11 intergovernmental organizations, and a broad network of civil society and stateless-led organizations – all working together to ensure that no one is left without a nationality.
The event “Growing membership, strengthening resolve: One year of the Global Alliance to End Statelessness,” featured a powerful discussion moderated by Ruvendrini Menikdiwela, UNHCR’s Assistant High Commissioner for Protection, focused on the good practices and the commitment of Alliance members.
Thailand shared how its 2024 Cabinet resolution is opening a pathway to permanent residency and nationality for nearly 500,000 stateless people.
North Macedonia reflected on becoming the first country in the Western Balkans to resolve all known cases of statelessness linked to the dissolution of the former Yugoslavia.
Armando Augello Cupi, founder of Italy’s first stateless-led organization Unione Italiana Apolidi, shared how lived experience drives change.
A special highlight of the event was a ceremony which welcomed Slovenia as the latest country to join the Alliance. Together with the recently joined Albania, Côte d’Ivoire, and Italy, this brings the Alliance to more than 150 committed members.
The Philippines, as the co-chair of the Alliance Advisory Committee, underlined that no State can end statelessness alone and stressed the power of multistakeholder collaboration and action.
Brazil reaffirmed its belief in multilateralism, noting that its engagement and role on the Alliance’s Advisory Committee reflects this commitment.
The event also recognized the eleven States – Angola, Iceland, Togo, Congo, Sao Tome and Principe, South Sudan, Columbia, Malta, North Macedonia, Philippines, and Slovenia – that have recently acceded to the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and/or the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness. With these new accessions, there are now 99 States party to the 1954 Convention and 82 to the 1961 Convention.
In just one year, the Alliance has shown that ending statelessness is possible when political will, lived experience, and international cooperation come together.
We look forward to another year of partnership, collective action, and concrete progress.
26 October 2026
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As we mark the second anniversary of the Global Alliance to End Statelessness, we celebrate this milestone by reflecting on our progress and looking ahead with renewed determination. When the Alliance was launched, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres captured the profound human stakes of our mission with a powerful core vision: “No matter who or where they are, every person belongs.” For millions of people, statelessness remains a barrier to rights, services and dignity. Ending it requires collective action across governments, international organizations, civil society, affected communities and other partners.
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Standing To End Statelessness: A Conversation with ICDH in Haiti on the Frontlines of Human Rights
As the Global Alliance to End Statelessness marks its second anniversary and reaches a powerful network of 200 members strong, we are reminded that tangible progress on addressing and preventing statelessness is possible through our collective action, in particular supporting the most vulnerable and at risk of being left behind. To explore our shared vision and what it truly means to fight for the “right to have rights,” we sat down in a short conversation with Mr. Urbens Wilbert DIEUVEUIL, Director of Initiative Citoyenne pour les Droits de l’Homme, ICDH that proudly stepped forward as the 200th member of the Global Alliance.
Read more21 October 2026
African Human Rights Day: Call for Action on the Right to a Nationality and the Eradication of Statelessness in Africa
On African Human Rights Day, as we mark 40 years since the entry into force of the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights, we are calling for renewed action to protect the right to a nationality and end statelessness across Africa.
A joint statement led by the Pan African Nationality Network (PANN), the South African Nationality Network (SANN), the Global Alliance to End Statelessness, Lawyers for Human Rights and other partner organizations highlights that nationality is fundamental to human dignity, equality, belonging and full participation in society.