A number of problems arise for stateless persons in the exercise of their fundamental human rights, beyond the right to a nationality. Stateless persons may face severe restrictions in exercising their rights to education, work, social security, right to own property, right to travel, and many other social, economic and civil rights, as well as political rights. The level of enjoyment of those rights differs from one country to the next. The study considered the legal situation the following initially identified groups of stateless persons, and the legislative provision in the six country subject of the study: • Lebanon: Kurds, Armenians, Bedouin tribes and stateless Palestinian refugees • Syria: a percentage of the Kurdish populations of north eastern and northern territories treated by the law not as Syrian but as either of Turkish or Iraqi descent, and stateless Palestinian refugees. • Bahrain, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates: “Bidoon”, Arabic for bidoon Jinsiya, [without nationality], nomads traveling across boundaries who never got citizenship in any country during the process of state formation during the 1950’s until 1970’s. Bidoon also include long-time migrant workers from Iran, Iraq, Syria and Asian or African countries who may have lost their links with their countries of origin. • Egypt: Stateless groups include Armenians who had fled the Ottoman Empire, stateless Palestinian refugees, and unknown numbers of children born out of wedlock or whose parents fail to register them with the authorities upon birth. Efforts have been made to deal with the stateless populations in several countries. A substantial group of stateless persons were indeed naturalized in Lebanon and Bahrain. The United Arab Emirates has recently begun to seek solutions to the stateless Bidoon through registration and case reviews. Egypt has given women the right to grant nationality to their children regardless of their father’s origin. Human rights of stateless persons The study is premised on the requirement that human rights, as articulated in international conventions and declarations, are inherent and must be recognized and guaranteed by states to citizens and non-citizens alike. Non-compliance with the standards contained in international declarations and conventions therefore has implications concerning the stateless and the recognition of their rights and in particular, for the second or third generations born to stateless persons in those countries. The six countries reviewed in the study do have provision for rights in their respective constitutions. While international conventions refer to "each person…" or "everyone…", nearly all of the constitutional provisions refer to the subject of such rights as the "citizen." The constitutions of Kuwait and Egypt, do occasionally refer to “person” or “anyone” instead of "citizen" in some of their provisions. Constitutional provisions take on heightened importance when they are the only or primary point of reference, especially with the lack of 31