Syria
Religious discrimination
Syria’s Personal Status Code does not consider marriages between a Muslim woman and non-Muslim man…
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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…
Tajikistan
Gender + religious + ethnic discrimination
In Tajikistan, the ethnic minority Mughat people face structural discrimination, and as a result have…
Thailand
Refugee identity management
In Thailand, there is neither a refugee legal framework nor a consistent policy to guarantee…
The Bahamas
Marital status discrimination
In The Bahamas, children born abroad and out of wedlock to a Bahamian man and…
The Bahamas
Indefinite deferral of decision
In The Bahamas, citizenship applications for children born to non-citizens have long wait times, with…
The Bahamas
Legal gender discrimination
Under The Bahamas’ nationality law, women do not have equal rights to confer nationality to…
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…
Turkmenistan
Intergenerational statelessness among the migrant-descended / minority groups
In Turkmenistan, children born to stateless parents face difficulties accessing birth registration. In 2018, UNHCR…