THE COMMITTEE ON THE RIGHTS OF THE CHILD 80th Pre-Sessional Working Group (04 – 08 June 2018) Syria Civil Society Submission on the right of every child to acquire a nationality under Article 7 CRC 1st March 2018 Introduction 1. The Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion (the Institute)1 welcomes the opportunity to make this submission to the Committee on the Rights of the Child regarding Syria’s compliance towards every child’s right to acquire a nationality under Article 7 of the CRC. 2. The Institute hopes that the Committee will draw on this submission to raise the issue of realising the right of every child to acquire a nationality in its List of Issues for Syria, and address recommendations to the Government of Syria in its Concluding Observations to further prevent and reduce the problem of childhood statelessness in the country. This submission has been structured to highlight issues that may be included in the List of Issues by including them in text boxes under each substantive section, and recommendations that may be drawn on for the Committees Concluding Observations by listing them at the very end of the text. 1 The Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion is an independent non-profit organisation committed to addressing statelessness and disenfranchisement in the world through the promotion of human rights, participation and inclusion. (www.institutesi.org)