First Global Forum on Statelessness: New Directions in Research and Policy Key Outcomes Overview: The First Global Forum on Statelessness (Global Forum) was held from 15 – 17 September 2014 at the Peace Palace in The Hague, the Netherlands. The event was co-organised and hosted by UNCHR and the Statelessness Programme of Tilburg University in the context of the 60th anniversary of the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons. The Global Forum also heralded the launch of UNHCR’s Campaign to End Statelessness, on 4 November 2014. Many of the discussions during the Global Forum were therefore focused on the overarching question of finding definitive solutions to statelessness. The aims of the Global Forum were to:      Share good practices and challenges in policy development on statelessness; Explore and debate contemporary statelessness research and policy; Encourage new research on statelessness across and between a range of academic disciplines; Provide a platform for the voices of stateless persons in the development of new research and policy directions; and Strengthen existing partnerships and build new networks among different stakeholders engaged on statelessness. 300 participants attended the Global Forum from over 70 countries and a wide range of backgrounds. Participants included: 65 individuals from NGOs; 4 individuals from National Human Rights Institutions; 71 academics; 42 state officials; 41 UNHCR staff members; 20 participants from intergovernmental organizations; 20 legal practitioners; 7 stateless persons; 3 journalists; 3 videographers/photographers and 2 judges. Three sub-themes, Stateless Children, Statelessness and Security and Responses to Statelessness, informed the content of the presentations, roundtables and discussions. The Global Forum was also addressed by the following keynote speakers:    Volker Türk, Director, Division of International Protection, UNHCR Irene Khan, Director-General, International Development Law Organisation Nils Muižnieks, Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights Giving stateless and formerly stateless individuals an opportunity to explain their experiences was an important aspect of the Global Forum, and two panel sessions, moderated respectively by UNHCR’s Honorary Lifetime Goodwill Ambassador Barbara Hendricks and journalist and critic A.A. Gill, provided a platform for these individuals to tell their powerful and moving stories. To represent the millions of stateless people who were not able to participate directly in the event, an award-winning photography exhibition entitled ‘Nowhere People’ by Greg Constantine, brought the images and stories of stateless individuals around the world to the Global Forum.