The Syrian Initiative to Combat Statelessness 24 began to demand a change in the Syrian nationality law, in coordination with the Syrian Women’s Association. However, this campaign focused on one case of statelessness only, namely the marriage of a Syrian woman to a foreigner. | Marriage to a non-Syrian citizen: Like many countries in the world, there are marriages between Syrian citizens and citizens of other nationalities, especially the Lebanese and Egyptian nationalities, in addition to other Arab and foreign nationalities. Marriage to Palestinians is the highest number in Syria due to the presence of a large community residing in the country. As is the case with most problems facing Syrian society, Syrian women married to non-Syrians and their children are the most affected, especially if they are unable to obtain the nationality of their fathers due to different circumstances. Many cases have been recorded of women who applied for an exception from the Presidency Office to obtain citizenship for their children - given that Syrian law prohibits Syrian women from passing on their nationality to their children - without obtaining a satisfactory response that grants children the right to live in Syria as a Syrian citizen, not as a foreigner. | Census of Hasakah in 1962: Legislative Decree No. 93 of 196214 was issued to conduct a census in Al-Hasakah Governorate - which is the main center for the Kurdish population of Syria - which was called (the exceptional census). The most prominent of what the decree stipulated in its first article: “A general census of the population in Al-Hasakah Governorate shall be conducted in one day, the date of which shall be determined by a decision of the Minister of Planning upon the proposal of the Minister of Interior. As a result of this census, the Kurds in Syria were divided into: - Kurds with the Syrian nationality. - Kurds deprived of nationality and registered officially as foreigners: their numbers reached 346,242, according to a report by the Syrians for Truth and Justice Organization entitled (Syrian Citizenship Disappeared)15. - Kurds deprived of their nationality and not registered in the official 14 Legislative Decree No:93 15 STJ- “Syrian Citizenship Disappeared” How the 1962 Census destroyed stateless Kurds’ lives and identities