The Syrian Initiative to Combat Statelessness 16 at the required level by state institutions and ministries to find solutions to the problem, despite the Syrian Women’s Association’s attempt to convince Syrian public opinion of the need to do so. Although the Syrian government signed the CEDAW agreement (Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women), which constituted a starting point for the women of the Syrian League to demand a change in laws that violate the rights of women, the Syrian regime has sought to dilute and neglect the problem. Even regarding the People’s Assembly voting on the reservations contained in Decree 330 to the “CEDAW” agreement, which exempts Syria, despite being a signatory to the convention, from any obligation to change its laws and regulations in force that discriminate against women.2 With this downplaying, the Syrian regime continued to deal with a very important social problem, and justified its reservations with several arguments, including the violation of Islamic law, despite the absence of any contradiction between granting nationality and Islamic law. According to many interviews conducted by the research team with Syrian clerics who confirmed that the right of women to grant citizenship differs from granting lineage that some clerics associate with patriarchal blood. This indeed is another aspect of the problem, some believe that it is based on the jurisprudence of clerics, and is not based on explicit and clear religious texts. In addition, there is an assertion that granting a woman her nationality to her children is inconsistent with resettlement, since Syria considers itself committed to the Arab League decisions that stipulate that Palestinians will not be resettled in any Arab country. With the start of the Syrian revolution in 2011, the phenomenon of statelessness began to increase, especially after 2012, when the country’s internal war coincided with the entry of foreign fighters and their establishment of Islamic Emirates, at the top of which was the Islamic State (ISIS), and Jabhat Al-Nusra. It is currently called “Levant Liberation Committee” Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), which for a long-time controlled Eastern and Northern Syria. Cases of marriage of Syrian women to unidentified members affiliated with these radical organizations, resulted in many births without descent, and thus rendered these children stateless. As for the areas under the con2 Tishreen newspaper issued on October 22, 2008 titled “The People’s Assembly Discusses the Social Affairs Plan” that the People’s Assembly unanimously approved the reservations, without any discussion of the effects of this decision on Syrian women.