Key Outcomes: The Global Forum provided an unprecedented opportunity for a wide-range of actors to meet and share their experiences, research, plans and ideas to better understand and take action to address and resolve statelessness. Two organisations, the Network of European National Human Rights Institutions and the World Council of Churches, also used the occasion of the Global Forum to present respectively a joint statement on statelessness and an outcome document on statelessness. Separate meetings on statelessness were also organised by the Open Society Foundations, the European Network on Statelessness and the World Council of Churches, on the margins of the Global Forum, thereby building on the key outcomes generated by the event itself. Many informal meetings were held between participants as a direct result of the networking opportunity afforded by the Global Forum. Key outcomes of particular interest to UNHCR arising from the Forum are grouped below under three thematic areas around which the Global Forum was structured: Stateless Children     More research should be undertaken to clarify the circumstances in which lack of birth registration can give rise to a risk of statelessness, which is likely to vary depending on the national context and individual circumstances. The relationship between civil registration, civil documentation, legal identity, nationality and related documentation and the prevention of statelessness may become an increasingly important area of research and policy, particularly in the context of the negotiation of the sustainable development goals in 2015. There are opportunities to mainstream measures to increase levels of civil registration of stateless persons and persons at risk of statelessness within development planning and projects, including existing national and regional civil registration and vital statistics initiatives. The issue of statelessness in surrogacy situations is an emerging issue. Further discussions with States and legal practitioners are required and UNHCR guidance needed on surrogacy as it relates to the 1961 Convention. The ineffective implementation of the safeguard against statelessness at birth in national and international law presents an opportunity for strategic litigation at the national and regional level, where applicable. Statelessness and Security    In light of recent trends in certain countries, UNHCR’s position on the issue of denationalization leading to statelessness as a form of persecution needs to be discussed. Further research between the links between forced migration, protracted refugee situations, statelessness and durable solutions is required. Practical solutions need to be further explored and discussed between UNHCR, partners and other stakeholders. As the global security landscape continues to shift, and in many cases, worsen, windows of opportunity to take action on statelessness need to be grasped. In addition, the ability and approaches that can be used to continue most effectively address statelessness in the context of volatile or charged political environments also requires further consideration.