Humanitarian and Development
Organizations:
• Increase awareness of the number of stateless Syrian refugees in
KRI beyond Dohuk and the specific vulnerabilities they face in displacement and upon return.
• Facilitate referrals for stateless Kurdish refugees to educational
and vocational services to address barriers in recognising skills or
accreditation from Syria.
• Provide for the possibility of recording stateless Kurdish refugees
from Syria in the identification of beneficiaries to enhance visibility of
this community on both a national and international level and better
understand particular needs and barriers.
• Strengthen dialogue with education stakeholders to include stateless Kurdish refugees in education programming and reintegration
efforts in schools in KRI.
• Address protection risks faced by stateless refugees, including
restricted movement, access to housing, land, and property (HLP) upon
return to Syria.
Asylum-Seeker and RefugeeHosting Countries:
• Include information on stateless Syrian Kurds, including the distinction between maktoumeen and ajanib, in country of origin profiles.
• Where statelessness determination procedures do not exist,
develop and implement domestic mechanisms to identify stateless individuals and enable them to apply for recognition of their status without
a nationality, particularly alongside refugee status determination (RSD)
processes.
UNHCR
• Assess approaches to recognise statelessness within the RSD process that considers the consequences of this identification, namely discrimination or stigmatisation, and operational constraints.
• Review the gap between SDP and RSD processes to recognise the
stateless of Syrian refugees during RSD.
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