Organised by the Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion (ISI), Nationality for All (NFA) and Development of Human Resources for Rural Areas (DHRRA) Malaysia, the conference brought together around 450 participants from around 50 countries and around 100 more were participating online.
The programme focused on the three themes of SOLIDARITY, KNOWLEDGE and CHANGE, and consultatively developed to respond to the interests and needs of the field. This event brought together advocates, activists, academics, artists, community and social leaders, members of the donor community, UN and government representatives, in a safe and equal space, the conference inspired, informed and invigorated efforts to achieve positive change.
Agenda for the conference
13.00 – 14.00 Registration
14.00 – 15.30 CONFERENCE OPENING
15.30 – 16.00 Coffee Break
16.00 – 17.30 Regional stocktaking sessions
- Asia and the Pacific
- Americas
- Africa
- Europe
- Middle East and North Africa
17.30 – 19.00 Opening Reception
18.30 – 20.30 Film Screening: Life is Beautiful
08.00 – 09.00 Late registration & coffee
09:00 – 09.45 KNOWLEDGE DAY OPENING PLENARY
09:45 – 10.00 Transition break
10.00 – 11.15
- Statelessness in South East Asia
- Interdisciplinary approaches to studying statelessness: case studies from Australia and Pakistan
- Revisiting international frameworks
- Statelessness in Ukraine
- MENA Statelessness Research Platform
- Statelessness in East Asia
- Statelessness in Africa
- WORKSHOP: Litigating for gender equal nationality Laws
- WORKSHOP: Getting the best out of pro bono support
11.15 – 11.45 Coffee Break
11:45 – 13:15
- PANEL: Statelessness & discrimination
- PANEL: Nationality, identity and statelessness in emergencies
- PANEL: Building effective statelessness protection systems
- WORKSHOP: Knowing statelessness
- WORKSHOP: Engaging with people with lived experience of statelessness
13.15 – 14.30 Lunch Break
14.30 – 16.00
- PANEL: Knowledge as a driver of change
- PANEL: The socio-economic impacts of statelessness
- PANEL: Rethinking statelessness through a postcolonial lens
- PANEL: Unpacking the child’s right to a nationality
- TOWNHALL: The Global Movement Against Statelessness
- ROUNDTABLE: Digital ID, digital public infrastructure, and statelessness
16.00 – 16.30 Coffee break
16.30 – 17.30 KNOWLEDGE DAY CLOSING PLENARY
18.30 – 20.30 Film screening: Adrift
09.00 – 09.45 SOLIDARITY DAY OPENING PLENARY
09.45 – 10.00 Transition break
10.00 – 11.15
- Statelessness amplified: Lessons learned from United Stateless Leaders
- Stateless research in Asia
- Intersectional feminist approaches to statelessness work
- Statelessness in East Asia
- Statelessness in South Asia
- Documenting de facto citizens: Legal identity under insurgencies and unrecognised states
- Conversations with stateless community leaders in Australia
- WORKSHOP: Temporality and statelessness
11.15 – 11.45 Coffee Break
11.45 – 13.15
- PANEL: Solidarity in entrenched situations of statelessness
- PANEL: Empowering stateless communities through legal advocacy
- PANEL: Legal identity for all
- PANEL: Statelessness and migration
- PANEL: The Assam crisis
- SKILLS LAB: Fundraising for statelessness work
13.45 – 14.30 Lunch break
14.30 – 16:00
- PANEL: The rights of the Rohingya community
- PANEL: Solidarity & Power
- SKILLS LAB: National Advocacy on the right to nationality and statelessness
- WORKSHOP: Beyond the state
- PANEL: The Global Alliance to End Statelessness
16.00 – 16.30 Coffee break
16.30 – 17.30 SOLIDARITY DAY CLOSING PLENARY
18.00 – 20.00 Film Screening: Where shall we go after the last border?
09.00 – 10.45
- PANEL: Resourcing the statelessness field
- PANEL: The right to nationality and statelessness in Malaysia
PANEL: Arbitrary documentation and radicalised outcomes - PANEL: Citizenship stripping
- SKILLS LAB: Protecting ourselves – Wellbeing in the field of statelessness
10.45 – 11.15 Coffee break
11.15 – 12.45
- PANEL: Mobilising to end gender discriminatory nationality laws
- PANEL: The COVID-19 Emergency Stateless Fund and lessons for the future
- PANEL: From Palestine to the Rohingya: atrocity crimes against the stateless
- PANEL: From paralegals to power
- PANEL: Statelessness and health
- WORKSHOP: Risk and safety for stateless activists
12.45 – 14.00 Lunch break
14.00 – 15.30
- PANEL: Addressing statelessness through UN mechanisms
- PANEL: Education for stateless children & educating children about statelessness
- PANEL: Community-based changemaking
- WORKSHOP: Litigating citizenship and identity documents
- WORKSHOP: Stateless scholars – the next generation
15.30 – 16.00 Coffee break
16.00 – 17.30 CONFERENCE CLOSING PLENARY
