Resources
The Resource List is a non-exhaustive compilation of useful references, organizations’ websites and projects dedicated to eradicating statelessness. Explore these resources to support and engage with initiatives working to end statelessness today.
Links
GLOBAL RESOURCES:
Global Citizenship Observatory | EUI
Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion Stateless Hub
Inter-Parliamentary Union and UNHCR Good practices in nationality laws for the prevention and reduction of statelessness | Inter-Parliamentary Union, 2018
Inter-Parliamentary Union and UNHCR Handbook for Parliamentarians No. 22 Nationality and Statelessness, 2014
OHCHR
Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung Atlas of the Stateless, 2020
UNHCR’s global legal and country information database Statelessness
UN Statelessness Convention:
The 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons | UNHCR
The 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness | UNHCR
Statelessness Policy and Doctrine
Global Action Plan to End Statelessness 2.0 | UNHCR, October 2024
Guidelines on Statelessness No. 3: The Status of Stateless Persons at the National Level | UNHCR, July 2012
Handbook on Protection of Stateless Persons | UNHCR, 2014
ICCPR International Covenant on Civil And Political Rights: Quick Reference Guide – Statelessness and Human Rights Treaties, UNHCR , October 2016
UNHCR and Minority Rights Group International, ICERD Quick Reference Guide: Statelessness and Human Rights Treaties, July 2017
UN Secretary-General: Key Messages on statelessness, November 2018
UNHCR Good Practices on Statelessness
Action 1: Resolving Existing Major Situations of Statelessness, February 2015
Action 2: Ensuring that no child is born stateless, March 2017
Action 3: Removing Gender Discrimination from Nationality Laws, March 2015
Action 6: Good Practices Paper – Action 6: Establishing Statelessness Determination Procedures to Protect Stateless Persons, July 2020
Action 7: Ensuring birth registration for the prevention of statelessness, November 2017
Action 9: Acceding to the UN Statelessness Conventions, April 2015
Reports and Publications
Spotlight on Statelessness January-June 2025 | Refworld
The #IBelong Campaign: A Decade of Action to End Statelessness, 2014-2024 | UNHCR, October 2024
THEMATIC AREAS:
Leaving No One Behind: Statelessness and the Sustainable Development Goals | Refworld, October 2025
Litigating the Right to a Nationality: A Guide for Practitioners | UNHCR, November 2024
Addressing Statelessness Through the Rule of Law | IDLO, 2022
Addressing discrimination in nationality laws and policies
Background Note on Gender Equality, Nationality Laws and Statelessness 2025 | UNHCR, March 2025
Equality Now The State We’re In: Ending Sexism in Nationality Laws – 2022 Edition
Global Campaign for Equal Nationality Rights
- Global Overview | The Global Campaign for Equal Nationality Rights
- Resources | The Global Campaign for Equal Nationality Rights
UN Special Rapporteur on Minority Issues Report on Statelessness & Minorities
UNHCR and Global Campaign for Equal Nationality Rights CEDAW Quick Reference Guide: Statelessness and Human Rights Treaties, April 2017
Ending childhood statelessness
CHIP Child Identity Protection
OSCE and UNHCR Opening Doors for Children: Prevention of Childhood Statelessness – Good Practices in the OSCE Area, 2025
UNICEF and CHIP Legal Atlas on Birth Registration, January 2026
UNHCR and UNICEF CRC Convention on the Rights of the Child: Quick Reference Guide – Statelessness and Human Rights Treaties, January 2017
Protecting the rights of stateless persons
Equal Rights Trust: Guidelines to Protect Stateless Persons from Arbitrary Detention (2012)
Stateless Persons in Detention: A tool for their identification and enhanced protection | UNHCR, June 2017
REGIONAL RESOURCES:
Africa
Citizenship Rights in Africa Initiative
Declaration of International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR) Member States on the Eradication of Statelessness, October 2017 (also available in Arabic, French, & Portuguese)
The Southern African Nationality Rights Index
UNHCR & ECOWAS, Abidjan Declaration of Ministers of ECOWAS Member States on Eradication of Statelessness, February 2015 (also available in French & Portuguese)
Americas
Brazil Declaration and Plan of Action: A Framework for Cooperation and Regional Solidarity to Strengthen the International Protection of Refugees, Displaced and Stateless Persons in Latin America and the Caribbean, December 2014 (also available in French, Spanish & Portuguese)
Cartagena+40: Chile Declaration and Plan of Action 2024-2034, December 2024
The Americas Network on Nationality and Statelessness Legal Framework
UNHCR & OAS & CLARCIEV Emergency Response by Civil Registry and Identification Offices during the COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020
UNHCR & OAS & CLARCIEV Regional study on late birth registration, issuance of nationality documents and statelessness, 2020
Asia-Pacific
Ashgabat Declaration on Ending Statelessness in Central Asia, November 2024
Asian and Pacific Civil Registration and Vital Statistics Decade (2015 – 2024)
UN ESCAP Ministerial Declaration on a Decade of Action for Inclusive and Resilient Civil Registration and Vital Statistics in Asia and the Pacific, July 2025
Nationality For All Statelessness Encyclopedia Asia Pacific – SEAP
Statelessness and Dignified Citizenship Coalition Asia Pacific
UNHCR Joint Conclusions of the 2nd Regional Conference on the Right to Legal Identity and Prevention of Statelessness: Leaving No One Behind at Birth, September 2019
Europe
Council of Europe
- European Convention on Nationality, November 1997
- Compendium of Promising Practices on Access to Nationality for Stateless Children, November 2025
- Recommendation CM/Rec(2009)13 on the nationality of children
European Network on Statelessness (ENS)
- ENS Statelessness Index,
- Statelessness Case Law Database (ENS)
- ENS Stateless Journeys Legal assistance | Apatride Network
Handbook on Statelessness in the OSCE Area: International Standards and Good Practices | OSCE, February 2017
MENA
Hawiati – MENA Statelessness Network
League of Arab States Arab Declaration on Belonging and Legal Identity, February 2018 (also available in Arabic)
Research and Advocacy Network on Statelessness in the MENA (RANS MENA) MENA Statelessness Platform