High profile supporters

Filippo Grandi

UN High Commissioner for Refugees

“I believe everyone has the right to say #IBelong”.

Leymah Gbowee

Liberia - Nobel Peace laureate

“Nationality gives every man, woman and child an equal chance in life.”

Maria Do Ceu Silva Monteiro

Guinea Bisseau - President, Community Court of Justice, Economic Community of West African States

“Without the legal protection offered by citizenship, the victims are exposed to severe hardships.”

Cheikh Lô

Senegal – Singer, Musician

« Tout ce qu’il faut pour mettre fin à l’apatridie, c’est la volonté politique. »

Gabriela Rivadeneira

Ecuador - President of the National Assembly

“Nationality is the gateway to all the rights we deserve and dream of. We must eradicate statelessness”

His Holiness Abune Mathias

Ethiopia - Patriarch of Ethiopia, Archbishop of Axum and Ichege of the See of Teklehaimanot

“It’s sad millions are condemned to a life without a nationality. The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahido Church wholeheartedly supports the campaign, including through prayers.”

Zainab Salbi

Iraq - Author and Founder of the Women for Women International.

“Millions of women across the world are suffering because they cannot say #IBelong.”

Nils R. Muižnieks

France - The Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights

Everyone has the right to nationality. End statelessness now!

Rokia Traoré

Mali - Singer, Songwriter

“As a mother it seems inconceivable that I would not be able to pass my nationality on to my children. We need to make sure that all mothers and their children can say #IBelong.”

Peter Capaldi

United Kingdom - Actor, Director and UNHCR Supporter

“Statelessness is a grave injustice inflicted upon millions of innocent people. They deserve to say #IBelong.”

Maria Eugénia Da Silva Neto

Angola - Chair of the Foundation Agostinho Neto.

“Ask the sun why on the Earth, there are human beings that have no soil to grow out of…”

Marguerite Abouet

Côte d'Ivoire - écrivaine, scénariste et réalisatrice

“Je crois que tout le monde à le droit d’appartenir.”

Louise Arbour

Canada - Former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights

“Statelessness is our collective failure. We have a responsibility to ensure human beings receive the protection and benefits…”

Kathy Calvin

United States - President and CEO of the United Nations Foundation

“I believe everyone has the right to nationality and I know Eleanor Roosevelt would agree!”

Guor Mading Maker

South Sudan - Track and Field Athlete

“We need to create a world in which everyone can say #IBelong”

Douglas Booth

United Kingdom - Actor

“It should not be a matter of ‘who’ or ‘from where’, everybody should have the right to say #IBelong.”

Dobet Gnahoré

Côte d'Ivoire

“Merci aux autorités compétentes de faire en sorte que chaque personne sur cette terre puisse avoir une nationalité, ce qui est un droit fondamental.”