JULY – DECEMBER 2025 further explored the essential connection between legal identity and nationality, emphasizing that ending statelessness is a key step toward achieving SDG 16.9. By centering the perspectives of people with lived experience, the Forum created space for stateless individuals to share their journeys, the challenges they face, and the solutions they propose. As a result, statelessness gained high‑impact visibility during this high‑level global event. The Global Alliance to End Statelessness continued to advance its three priority areas through a series of Knowledge Webinars that engaged more than 200 participants from governments, regional organizations, UN agencies, civil society, and stateless‑led groups. These sessions brought together experts with lived experience and institutional actors as speakers and contributors. Building on these workstreams, a Regional Network Lab, organized by the European Network on Statelessness in partnership with Statefree, Apatride Network, and Family Frontiers, focused on promoting a collaborative, cross‑sector approach to advancing the statelessness agenda, notably through the presentation of new advocacy guidelines. These events underscored the importance of dialogue, knowledge‑sharing, and co‑creation in shaping effective strategies to end statelessness. In July, UNHCR and the Organization for Security and Co-Operation in Europe (OSCE) launched the report “Opening Doors for Children: Prevention of Childhood Statelessness. Good Practices in the OSCE Area” in Vienna in the presence of OSCE Ambassadors. The report is a joint publication between UNHCR, the OSCE High Commissioner for National Minorities (HCNM) and the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR). The aim of the report is to encourage OSCE participating States to adopt good practices to address and prevent childhood statelessness, ensure universal birth registration and implement other positive measures to protect stateless children. It summarizes the international legal framework relating to the prevention of childhood statelessness and provides examples of good UNHCR / DIPS Statelessness Section practices from selected OSCE participating States. In October, UNHCR participated in the European Migration Network (EMN) Platform on Statelessness meeting on “Statelessness in the EU Pact on Migration and Asylum: with focus on statelessness and vulnerability” in Luxembourg. The event emphasized the importance of taking statelessness into account in the implementation of the EU Pact on Migration and Asylum and highlighted the need for further guidance for Member States. UNHCR presented its key advocacy messages on statelessness and the EU Pact. In November, UNHCR participated in the 105th Plenary Meeting of the European Committee on Legal Co-Operation (CDCJ) in Strasbourg. The meeting discussed the draft revised Recommendation CM/REC(2009)13 on the nationality of children and adopted the Council of Europe’s Compendium of promising practices on access to nationality for stateless children. The Compendium was prepared by the CDCJ Limited Working Group on Migration (CDCJ-MIG), in which UNHCR participates as an expert. The 14th World Conference of the International Association of Refugee and Migration Judges (IARMJ), held in November 2025 in Nairobi, brought together a diverse group of global stakeholders to examine key protection challenges. Discussions highlighted the intersection between statelessness and internal displacement. Participants noted that this intersection remains significantly underexplored in both academic literature and policy frameworks, despite the high global numbers of IDPs. The Conference underscored the need to reintegrate statelessness considerations into IDP frameworks and to strengthen nationality laws with safeguards against statelessness. In February, UNHCR launched the Central Asia Key Terms Guide in seven languages to support journalists, students, NGOs, lawyers, and partners in using accurate and consistent terminology on statelessness and forced displacement across the region. 12