{"id":533,"date":"2026-03-27T08:44:02","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T06:44:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aleksejs.eu\/?page_id=533"},"modified":"2026-03-27T09:16:27","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T07:16:27","slug":"achievements","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/aleksejs.eu\/?page_id=533","title":{"rendered":"Achievements"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"533\" class=\"elementor elementor-533\" data-elementor-settings=\"[]\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-section-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-bcad465 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"bcad465\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-782b122\" data-id=\"782b122\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-845aa17 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"845aa17\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\">\n\t\t\t\t<p>In August 2020, Aleksejs founded the first stateless-led organisation (SLO) in Europe in response to systemic gaps in addressing statelessness within the human rights field. As the head of the organisation, he achieved the following:<\/p><p><span class=\"_16027420 e816cbc0\" tabindex=\"-1\" data-testid=\"expandable-text-box\">\u2022 Provided over a hundred statelessness guest lectures and workshops to universities, law clinics, UN agencies, and international organisations, and continues to do so, averaging more than a dozen annually.<\/span><\/p><p><span class=\"_16027420 e816cbc0\" tabindex=\"-1\" data-testid=\"expandable-text-box\">\u2022 Led advocacy efforts influencing European Banking Authority regulatory technical standards, resulting in the recognition of statelessness and refugee status and the introduction of flexible identification requirements allowing alternative credible documentation.<\/span><\/p><p><span class=\"_16027420 e816cbc0\" tabindex=\"-1\" data-testid=\"expandable-text-box\">\u2022 Oversaw the creation of Statelessness Awareness Forum (Europe)\u2014the only continuous international forum dedicated to addressing statelessness. In its first three editions, the forum has brought together over a hundred participants from over thirty countries to discuss statelessness and plan how to better address it, centring the expertise of those who have direct experience of the subject.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span class=\"_16027420 e816cbc0\" tabindex=\"-1\" data-testid=\"expandable-text-box\">\u2022 Led a breakthrough in advocating UNHCR to remove administrative barriers to stateless people applying for UNHCR jobs, and currently leading efforts to spread the established good practice in other UN agencies.<\/span><\/p><p><span class=\"_16027420 e816cbc0\" tabindex=\"-1\" data-testid=\"expandable-text-box\">\u2022 Managed Apatride Network&#8217;s piloting of the initial stage of the Global Statelessness Fund (GSF), a multi-million dollar fund that addresses systemic underfunding of grassroots initiatives that tackle statelessness. The piloting paved the way for 50+ stateless-led organisations and campaigners all over the world access to much-needed resourcing in the field. <\/span><\/p><p><span class=\"_16027420 e816cbc0\" tabindex=\"-1\" data-testid=\"expandable-text-box\">\u2022 Brought together several leading stateless-led and exile-led coalitions to form Blockchain for Human Rights consortium, advocating for responsible use of blockchain technology in digitisation of identification. <\/span><\/p><p><span class=\"_16027420 e816cbc0\" tabindex=\"-1\" data-testid=\"expandable-text-box\">\u2022 Initiated and currently managing several large-scale projects with international law firm partners on financial inclusion, freedom of movement, legal assistance capacity building, and childhood statelessness prevention.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In August 2020, Aleksejs founded the first stateless-led organisation (SLO) in Europe in response to systemic gaps in addressing statelessness within the human rights field. As the head of the organisation, he achieved the following: \u2022 Provided over a hundred statelessness guest lectures and workshops to universities, law clinics, UN agencies, and international organisations, and<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link\">\n             <a href=\"https:\/\/aleksejs.eu\/?page_id=533\" class=\"read-more\">Read More<i class=\"fa fa-caret-right\"><\/i><\/a>\n        <\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-533","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aleksejs.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aleksejs.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aleksejs.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aleksejs.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aleksejs.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=533"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/aleksejs.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":549,"href":"https:\/\/aleksejs.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/533\/revisions\/549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aleksejs.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}