Multistakeholder 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 new Global Alliance to End Statelessness, a multistakeholder initiative which will be officially launched at the end of 2024. The alliance will seek to engage Governments, stateless people, United Nations agencies, regional organizations, civil society, parliamentary and faith-based organizations amongst others. The alliance is also linked with the United Nations Secretary-General's Common Agenda initiative and the commitment to end statelessness.

One of the activities of the Global Alliance that States and Intergovernmental Regional Organisations that have active pledges can commit to join, is the Solutions Seeker Programme. Solution Seekers will be supported through the mobilisation of diverse stakeholders and through practical tools to develop and implement timebound pledge implementation plans.

Pledge description

All relevant stakeholders

We pledge to become members of the Global Alliance to End Statelessness (once established) 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 Taskforce:

• European Network on Statelessness
• Inter-Parliamentary Union
• Nationality for All
• Global Campaign for Equal Nationality Rights
• Peter McMullin Centre on Statelessness
• Canadian Centre on Statelessness
• Haki Centre Organisation
• Family Frontiers
• Salaam for Democracy and Human Rights
• Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion
• OHCHR
• UNICEF
• UNHCR
• World Council of Churches
• United Stateless
• Vital Strategies

Members (tentative - TBC)

• Government of the United States of America
• Members of the Interagency Working Group on Statelessness (UNICEF, UNDP, OHCHR, UN Women, OCHA, IOM, CTED, UNDCO, UNODC)
• Friends of the IBelong Campaign
• International Regional organizations
• Civil Society organizations, including stateless-led organizations

Contact details

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

Calendar

• March-September 2023: Engagement with the Friends Group and individual Member States
• Q4 2023, ongoing: Open Formal membership sign-up for the alliance and solution seeker programme