News
24 September 2024
The Global Alliance to End Statelessness is pleased to announce the composition of its first-ever Advisory Committee.
The selection process was driven by the need for balanced representation, taking into account expertise, geographic and regional distribution, and the inclusion of various types of stakeholders. A key priority was to ensure that organizations led by individuals with lived experience of statelessness are included.
Read More for the full list of Advisory Committee members.
23 May 2024
The Global Alliance is looking to bring together a diverse group of individuals, who are eager to make a mark and to contribute their knowledge and skills to the collective efforts to resolve statelessness.
We are thus launching this open Call for Expressions of interest for the Global Alliance Advisory Committee.
The open call is extended until August 18, 2024, 23:59 CET.
15 April 2024
The second World Conference on Statelessness (WCS24) was organized in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, over 26-29 February 2024. The conference successfully convened a broad coalition of stakeholders from various regions, promoting knowledge sharing, solidarity, and collaborative action. UNHCR organized the panel ‘Uniting for Change: Accelerating Solutions through the New Multistakeholder Global Alliance to End Statelessness’ to inform of the benefits of multilateral engagement to address statelessness and build the Global Alliance membership among civil society and other stakeholders.
30 January 2024
The Global Refugee Forum 2023 was marked by an impressive commitment to address statelessness, with 135 new pledges made. Of these, 64 pledges came from 42 states. Significantly, 24 entities pledged to join the new Global Alliance to End Statelessness. The Philippines, Cote d’Ivoire, and CLARCIEV also pledged to join the Solution Seeker Programme.
1 December 2023
On 15 December 2023, in the framework of the Global Refugee Forum 2023, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) will host a parallel high-level event titled “From Pledges to Results: Realizing a World Free from Statelessness through Collaborative Action”.
