Join the Advocacy: Endorse Letters Urging Stronger State Action on Statelessness
The Global Alliance Protection Thematic Working Group (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.
Endorsing these letters allows Alliance members to collectively encourage States to take stronger action to identify stateless persons, prevent and reduce statelessness, and protect the rights of stateless people. The full texts of both letters are provided below. Members who wish to endorse them are invited to contact us on [email protected] and [email protected] by 10 December (COB).
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 more26 November 2025
Navigating a Difficult Funding Landscape: New Approaches to Resource Mobilization for Ending Statelessness
Efforts to address statelessness operate within a highly challenging fundraising landscape, characterized by declining official development assistance from governments and multilateral agencies. At the same time, raising resources for statelessness remains difficult due to limited donor awareness and a lack of understanding of the broader human rights implications of the issue.
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