From Pledges to Results: a parallel high-level event at the Global Refugee Forum 2023
From 26-29 February 2024, the World Conference on Statelessness, organized by the Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion, Nationality for All and Development of Human Resources for Rural Areas Malaysia, will be held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The global gathering will bring together various stakeholders to engage in a dialogue and to inform joint initiatives on statelessness centred around three themes – Knowledge, Solidarity, and Change.
On 28 February 2024, the Solidarity theme day of the conference, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) will host a panel on ‘Uniting for Change: Expediting Solutions through the New Multistakeholder Global Alliance to End Statelessness’. The event will introduce the Global Alliance to civil society organizations, stateless-led organizations and other stakeholders. It will seek feedback, galvanize support, and expand the membership of the Global Alliance through the launch of a membership drive campaign. The overall objective of the panel is to create an increased understanding among conference participants of the benefit of multistakeholder engagement and action to address statelessness, foster opportunities for collaboration and support, and inform future strategies and action plans of the Alliance.
The panel will be moderated by a renowned stateless activist and will include a diverse range of panelists, including the representative of a Solution Seeker Member State, a regional civil society network, a grass-roots stateless-led organization, representatives of the academia and the United Nations.
The panel will take place in a hybrid modality on 28 February 2024 at 14:30 – 16:00 (UTC+8). The livestream link will be posted here once available.
23 December 2025
Statelessness in the Spotlight: Key GRF Progress Review Highlights
From 15 to 17 December 2025, Geneva hosted the Global Refugee Forum Progress Review – an important global convening which sought to maintain momentum and assess progress against the implementation of the pledges made at the Global Refugee Forum (GRF) towards the advancement of the Global Compact on Refugees (GCR). Governments, regional organizations, UN partners, civil society, and people with lived experience came together to spotlight, inter alia, progress and address gaps in nationality law reform, birth registration, legal identity, and documentation – key to preventing and reducing statelessness. The Global Alliance to End Statelessness featured prominently, showcasing growing membership and collective action. In this article, we explore the highlights and commitments shaping the path toward ending statelessness.
Read more8 December 2025
Equal Nationality Rights for Women – Key to Ending Statelessness and Strengthening Societies
On 2nd December 2025, Catherine Harrington, Manager of the Global Campaign for Equal Nationality Rights, moderated the fourth Global Alliance Webinar on Addressing Gender Discrimination in National Laws and Policies. Opening the event, she reminded participants that over forty-five countries still maintain nationality laws that discriminate based on gender. Twenty-four of these do not permit women to confer nationality on their children on an equal basis with men, making gender-discriminatory laws one of the root causes of statelessness.
Read more2 December 2025
Join the Advocacy: Endorse Letters Urging Stronger State Action on Statelessness
The Global Alliance Protection TWG, co-led by UNHCR and the Peter McMullin Centre on Statelessness, is supporting advocacy and awareness raising efforts to protect the rights of stateless persons. To achieve this, we are inviting Global Alliance members to endorse two letters: one addressed to States that have not yet acceded to the 1954 Convention, and another to States that are party to the Convention but have not yet established a Statelessness Determination Procedure.
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