The Campaign to End Statelessness
October – December 2024 Update
I BELONG
No longer invisible.
No longer stateless.
Highlights
• In October, UNHCR High Commissioner Filippo
Grandi launched the Global Alliance to End
Statelessness during the High-Level Segment on
Statelessness at the annual Executive Committee
meeting of UNHCR in Geneva.
• Thailand approved a Cabinet Resolution to fasttrack nationality and legal status applications
for long-term residents and children born in its
territory, benefiting hundreds of thousands of
registered stateless persons.
• Turkmenistan announced it had resolved all
known statelessness cases within its territory.
• In Zimbabwe, UNHCR supported Malawi’s
Embassy in mobile consular clinics, assisting
Malawian-origin individuals with information on
nationality, dual citizenship, and documentation.
• Latin American and Caribbean states adopted
the Cartagena+40: Chile Declaration and Plan of
Action, reaffirming commitments to protection and
solutions for displaced and stateless persons.
• South Sudan acceded to the 1954 and 1961
Statelessness Conventions.
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