Global Alliance Announces First Advisory Committee

The Global Alliance to End Statelessness is pleased to announce the composition of its first-ever Advisory Committee, which will serve a tenure of three years.

This decision comes after a thorough review of over 40 applications, ensuring that the selected members represent a diverse and well-rounded multi-stakeholder group to guide the Alliance’s strategic direction and work towards achieving the vision of a world free of statelessness where everyone enjoys the right to a nationality without discrimination.

This Advisory Committee is critical to the Alliance’s mission of addressing statelessness globally, ensuring that voices from national, regional, and global levels are all part of the collective strategies and efforts.

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.

The selected members, listed alphabetically, include:

European Network on Statelessness (ENS)
Family Frontiers (Malaysia)
Global Campaign for Equal Nationality Rights (GCENR)
Global Movement Against Statelessness
Government of the Philippines
Government of the United States of America
Haki Center (Kenya)
League of Arab States
Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)
OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities
Salam for Democracy and Human Rights (Salam DHR)
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)

We look forward to the valuable contributions of our new Advisory Committee members and their collaborative efforts toward achieving our shared goal of ending statelessness.

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