High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi announces the launch of the Global Alliance at the 75th annual session of the Executive
Committee’s high-level segment on statelessness. ©UNHCR/Baz Ratner
Mobilizing governments and civil society
The Global Alliance to End Statelessness was
formally launched on 14 October during the HighLevel Segment on Statelessness at UNHCR’s
Executive Committee meeting in Geneva. Attended
by over 100 government delegations and more than
50 intergovernmental, civil society, and statelessled organizations, the event highlighted progress
in ending statelessness—including achievements
from the decade-long #IBelong campaign—and
featured testimonies from formerly stateless
persons sharing their lived experiences. The Global
Alliance to End Statelessness is a collaborative
multistakeholder platform led by UNHCR. Its vision
is to create “a world free from statelessness where
everyone enjoys the right to a nationality without
discrimination.” The initiative is part of the UN
Secretary General’s ‘Our Common Agenda’ and
aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals.
From 26 to 28 November, in Cairo, The United
Nations Economic and Social Commission for
Western Asia (ESCWA), Arab Institute for Training
and Research in Statistics (AITRS) and the Expert
Group on Refugee, Internally Displaced Persons,
and Statelessness Statistics (EGRISS) organized a
regional workshop on statistical recommendations
for refugees, IDPs, and stateless persons, hosted
by the League of Arab States and co-organized with
UNHCR, JIPS, UNRWA, and UNFPA. The workshop
aimed to enhance national capacities in data
collection and was attended by representatives from
14 countries. It concluded with recommendations
on coordination, integrating these populations into
national statistical strategies, and improving data
collection.
In December, a Global multistakeholder summit
on advancing gender equality in nationality laws
was held, building on the momentum from the 2023
Global Summit on Gender Equality in Nationality
Laws. Organized by the Global Campaign for Equal
Nationality Rights (GCENR), Equality Now, the InterParliamentary Union (IPU), the UNHCR, and UN
Women, the summit sought to encourage countries
with gender-discriminatory nationality laws to
enact reforms and aimed to build partnerships and
roadmaps for national-level action. The summit
included parliamentarians, ministry representatives,
and civil society from among the 24 countries that
deny women equal rights to confer nationality
on their children, as well as representatives from
countries that have recently enacted reforms.
Sessions focused on sharing lessons learned,
strategic messaging, and building connections to
advance gender equality in nationality laws.
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