SOLVING STATELESSNESS Africa, the Americas, Asia and the Pacific, Central Asia, and Europe. The Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion, with which UNHCR has collaborated to produce this volume, has become the first global NGO dedicated to advocacy and research on statelessness issues. There is also a UN Member State group of ‘Friends of the Campaign to End Statelessness’ based in Geneva. The enhanced engagement of all these actors has led to more statelessness-related activity everywhere – from capitals around the world, to remote border areas, to the Human Rights Council in Geneva. Academic literature on statelessness is also flourishing, ranging from the recent ‘Nationality and Statelessness under International Law’ (Edwards and van Waas) to ‘Citizenship and Statelessness in Africa: The Law and Politics of Belonging’ (Manby). It is therefore appropriate that this volume should focus on solutions to statelessness. The global debates have moved beyond the need to explain the problem and its causes and consequences. The time has come to accelerate the momentum to implement durable solutions effectively. The essays in this volume are important contributions in this regard. They cover lessons learned from every region of the world. They also explore opportunities for more coordinated engagement in thematic areas important to the resolution of statelessness, such as human rights and sustainable development. There are already many principles and tools that are helpful to the cause of resolving statelessness. A number of the essays in this volume give a very timely, fresh appraisal of how these can be better leveraged to promote solutions. These include chapters on addressing statelessness through the right to equality (de Chickera and Whiteman), on the use of facilitated naturalisation (Molnar) and strategic litigation (Bingham and Gamboa) as tools to resolve cases and ensure remedies, as well as on making effective use of the UN human rights mechanisms (Khanna and Brett). At the same time, new challenges and opportunities are emerging that demand closer examination – as offered, for instance, in the essays on securing children’s right to nationality in the context of international surrogacy (Achmad) and on what the Sustainable Development Goals offer in terms of new avenues to solutions (Govil). In seeking to achieve solutions to statelessness, it is prudent to be mindful of how national and regional contexts may differ. I would urge all readers, wherever they may live and work, to explore the essays in this volume that focus on different regional situations, including 9