Multi-stakeholder Pledge: Ending Statelessness

Background

This pledge aims to increase the prevention and reduction of statelessness through the implementation of concrete pledges made by States and others.

One way to do this is for relevant stakeholders to join the Global Alliance to End Statelessness, which was formally launched at the UNHCR’s Executive Committee meeting in October 2024. This multi-stakeholder alliance engages Governments, stateless people, United Nations agencies, regional organizations, civil society, parliamentary and faith-based organizations amongst others. The alliance is part of the United Nations Secretary-General's Common Agenda initiative and aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals.

One of the workstreams of the Global Alliance is the Solutions Seeker Programme, which States and Intergovernmental Regional Organisations with active pledges are encouraged to join. This programme provides support by mobilising diverse stakeholders and offering practical tools to help develop and implement timebound pledge implementation plans.

Pledge description

All relevant stakeholders

We pledge to become members of the Global Alliance to End Statelessness to actively and collaboratively support the vision of a world free from statelessness so that everyone enjoys the right to nationality without discrimination.

States and Regional Intergovernmental Organizations

As an expression of our interest in preventing and responding to statelessness through the accelerated implementation of our individual pledges to address statelessness [X States and Regional Intergovernmental Organisations) also pledge to joining the Solutions Seeker Programme of the Global Alliance.

Related pledges to match

GRF-01547 - Government of Botswana - Law Reform. Find out more about matching this pledge.

GRF-00350 - Government of Burkina Faso - Draft and adopt a bill on the status of stateless persons. Find out more about matching this pledge.

GRF-00352 - Government of Burkina Faso - Reform legislation to address gaps that are a potential source of statelessness. Find out more about matching this pledge.

GRF-00424 - Government of Costa Rica - Improve birth registration, particularly in border areas, indigenous territories and rural areas. Find out more about matching this pledge.

GRF-00426 - Government of Costa Rica - Provide support to stateless persons to access durable solutions. Find out more about matching this pledge.

GRF-00502 - Government of Eswatini - Law reform to grant nationality to children of unknown origin. Find out more about matching this pledge.

GRF-01809 - Government of Eswatini - Civil registration and issuance of documentation to those with entitlement to it. Find out more about matching this pledge.

GRF-00605 - Government of Guinea-Bissau - Implement the 1954 Convention in domestic law by adopting laws to protect stateless persons and establishing a national statelessness commission. Find out more about matching this pledge.

GRF-00634 - Government of Mali - Ensure late birth registration. Find out more about matching this pledge.

GRF-00635 - Government of Mali - Establish a statelessness determination procedure. Find out more about matching this pledge.

GRF-00710 - Government of Namibia - Statelessness. Find out more about matching this pledge.

GRF-00713 - Government of Namibia - Law reform to grant nationality to children of unknown origin. Find out more about matching this pledge.

GRF-00761 - Government of Niger - Amend the nationality law to guarantee nationality at birth to all children who would otherwise be stateless and foundlings. Find out more about matching this pledge.

GRF-00774 - Government of Nigeria - Establish a Statelessness Determination Procedure to identify stateless persons and facilitate appropriate solutions. Find out more about matching this pledge.

GRF-00982 - Government of South Sudan - Improve access to nationality documentation services for persons at risk of statelessness. Find out more about matching this pledge.

GRF-01048 - Government of Zimbabwe - Improve access to birth registration procedures, including issuing birth certificates to descendants of former migrant workers and failed asylum seekers. Find out more about matching this pledge.

Leadership

Global Alliance Advisory Committee:

• UNHCR
• UNICEF
• OHCHR
• OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities
• League of Arab States
• Government of the Philippines
• Government of the United States of America
• European Network on Statelessness
• Family Frontiers
• Global Campaign for Equal Nationality Rights
• Global Movement Against Statelessness
• Haki Center Organization
• Salam for Democracy and Human Rights

Further information, including on members, can be found on the Global Alliance's website.

Contact details

Monika Sandvik, Senior Statelessness Coordinator, UNHCR, [email protected]

Calendar

• 5 December 2024: Online Meet-and-Greet Meeting of the Global Alliance Advisory Committee
• 28-29 January 2025: First Global Alliance Advisory Committee Meeting