Syria
Legal gender discrimination
Syria’s nationality law is based on descent through the father. This is part of the…
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Syria
Deficient consular civil registration services
Over 300,000 Syrian children have been born to parents in exile since 2011. Birth registration…
Syria
Marital status discrimination
In cases where Syrian women have children outside of wedlock, or as a result of…
Syria
Gender + religious + ethnic discrimination
In Syria ethnic minority groups, such as the Dom, Alawite and Druze, face discrimination that…
Syria
Registering minorities and stateless persons as foreigners
In Syria, the Kurds were stripped of citizenship in 1962 and given the status of…
Syria
Babies born to nations without states
In Syria, Palestinian refugees experience intergenerational transference of statelessness through the birth registration process. Most…
Syria
Religious discrimination
Syria’s Personal Status Code does not consider marriages between a Muslim woman and non-Muslim man…
Syria
Politicized birth registration practices as part of conflict / contests over territory
During the Syrian civil war, non-state actors, including ISIS, issued their own birth certificates. The…
Trinidad and Tobago
Temporary identity, migration management, and statelessness solutions
In Trinidad and Tobago, temporary migration management schemes have not proven to positively affect access…
Trinidad and Tobago
Refugee identity management
Trinidad and Tobago requires a valid passport from Venezuela to issue a birth certificate to…
Türkiye
Refugee identity management
In Türkiye, children of Syrian refugees have low birth registration rates and as a result…
Türkiye
Politicized birth registration practices as part of conflict / contests over territory
In 2023, the CRC noted that children of parents facing terrorism-related charges whose nationality has…